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when hurt accidentally it uttered a shrill screech but made no other sound.

Cage birds - The Mexican nightingale

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(The Tzintzontle is the mocking-bird & this name is said to mean bird of a hundred songs. The common name for hummingbird chupa rasa = rose-sucker.

The Mexicans are very fond of cage & singing birds & parrots. The mocking bird is a favorite and also the Zinzontle- Myadestes unicolor?

This latter is a small slate colored bird about the size of a bluebird and well earns its title of the “Mexican Nightingale”

Its song is short but high, clear and mellow with such a liquid, piercing tenderness in it that only the penoza Keats could do it justice. It carries in it the very soul of a woodland spirit and conjures up a nameless sweet melancholy such as falls to the portion of a nature-lover when far away in some cloister-like shades of heavy woodland where he forgets that he is of humanity and its petty ills a part, but merely sinks into forgetfulness of all except that he too [[strikethrough]] has a pa [[/strikethrough]] is a part of this nature-soul wherein dwells