. Bird-lore . ke Keepyour feet wet. Thefemale, three inches be-low and a little to oneside, parallels this advicewith an evenly timedWhat dyou care? inperfect unison, usually,with the reiteratedphrases of her does it some-what differently, as thefemale only says wank,wank, wank, while themale sits just above andsings almost exactly likea Cardinal, or a boywhistling loudly to hisdog, kui, hid, hui. If themale gives only threephrases, so with thefemale; if, however, themale repeats his whistlea dozen times, the femalebegins and ends in exacttime with him. Thiscurious habit I veri
. Bird-lore . ke Keepyour feet wet. Thefemale, three inches be-low and a little to oneside, parallels this advicewith an evenly timedWhat dyou care? inperfect unison, usually,with the reiteratedphrases of her does it some-what differently, as thefemale only says wank,wank, wank, while themale sits just above andsings almost exactly likea Cardinal, or a boywhistling loudly to hisdog, kui, hid, hui. If themale gives only threephrases, so with thefemale; if, however, themale repeats his whistlea dozen times, the femalebegins and ends in exacttime with him. Thiscurious habit I verified anumber of times. Stillmore interesting is thefact that both sexes ofDonacobius possess aninflatable sac of brightyellow skin on the sides of the throat, which, when the bird sings, puffs outto the size of a cherry, and is a very queer and conspicuous character. Whensinging, they look down, hump up the shoulders, pufif out the neck, andgive their strange duet from the top of a marsh weed or dead bush, and. BLACK-CAPPED WREX-THRAsHEK Donacobius alrkapillus Impressions of the Voices of Tropical Birds 343 ihcn, Wren - like, dropdown into hiding. All the PhcugopediusWrens arc fj;ifted with themost astonishingly loudand clear whistles. Awonderous Ihrushy qualityis theirs, with an un-1)1-1 ievahle range in theform and forte of theirsongs. Both sexes sing,usually, close together,and when one is hushedin the deep silence of thefern-tilled forest of thehumid mountains, tensefor the tiniest pip of aManikin or the mouse-like run of an Ant-thrush,it is enough to raise oneshair when, right in onesear, explodes a loud, as-tonishingly clear bloong-wheee-rip-wheeoo,rapidly repeated, fre-quently seconded by aless showy Well whip you yet of the female. It would be hard to describe a tangible difference between the songs ofPheugopedius and Henicorhina. Certainly there is no such difference in volumeor range as the tiny size of the latter would lead one to suppose. For thediminutive wood Wren
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