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                       BIRDS.
         ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY
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         VOL. II.    SEPTEMBER      NO. 3
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BIRD SONG.

    How songs are made
    Is a mystery,
    Which studied for years
    Still baffles me.
            --R. H. STODDARD.


"Some birds are poets and sing all summer," says Thoreau. "They are the
true singers. Any man can write verses in the love season. We are most
interested in those birds that sing for the love of music, and not of
their mates; who meditate their strains and amuse themselves with
singing; the birds whose strains are of