. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 1 It 196 SI.\f;iN(; I5IRDS. During the heat of the day, or 1 'c in the morning, the variety of his song (lecHnes, or he pursi employment in silence and retirement. About the 25th of May one of these familiar birds came into the Lotanic (iarden anil took u[) his summer aboile with us. Soon after his arrival he calk-d u[) in low whisperings the notes of the Whip-poor-will, the Kcdbird, the/><'A' of the Tufted litmouse, ami other imitations of Southern birds which he
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 1 It 196 SI.\f;iN(; I5IRDS. During the heat of the day, or 1 'c in the morning, the variety of his song (lecHnes, or he pursi employment in silence and retirement. About the 25th of May one of these familiar birds came into the Lotanic (iarden anil took u[) his summer aboile with us. Soon after his arrival he calk-d u[) in low whisperings the notes of the Whip-poor-will, the Kcdbird, the/><'A' of the Tufted litmouse, ami other imitations of Southern birds which he had collected on his leisurely route from the South. He also soon mocked the Ushc-yah 'tslie-yali of the little .\cadian Flycatch- ers, with which tht- neighborhood now abounded. Me fre- quently answered to my whittle in the garden, was very silent during the period of incubation, and e.\i)ressed great anxiety and complaint on my approaching the young after their leaving the nest. One uf the most remarkable proi)cnsities of the Catbird, and to which it owes its name, is the unjileasant. loud, and grating cat-like /// ('/ '/'7''' 'A^.') which it often utters on being approached or offended. .\s the irritation increases, this note becomes more hoarse, reiterated, ami vehement; and some- times this petulance and anger are carried so far as to i»er- secute ever}' intruder who apjiroaches the premises. This temi>er often prevails after the young are fledged : and though originating no doubt in parental anxiety, it sometimes appears to outlive that season, and occasionally becomes such an an- noyance that a revengeful and fatal blow from a stick or stone is but too often, with the thoughtless and prejudiced, the re- wanl of this harmless and capricious provocation. At such times, with little aj^parent cause, the agitation of the bird is excessive : she hurries backward and forward with hanging wings and open mouth, mewing and screaming in a paroxysm of scolding anger, and alight
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