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the time they always start in the middle and stop before they get to the end. Maybe the reason that the song is so sad is that the bird is sorry because it cannot finish it. Now when I started I thought as I sat down by a cornshock away from the sun that I did not have much to say about White-throats but now I see I am mistaken.

Myrtle Warblers and Rubycrowned Kinglets were also here. One of the latter keep up a constant rippling warble all the time. It was not much like the mating

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song.

Up by Vails I heard a Meadowlark and going up there saw the singer in a wire of a fence, rather an unusual location  according to my experience and two more in a tree. As I approached They flew out and one took to chasing the other. Every turn was followed as though it had all been planned but before hand. After a few turns it stopped but the other happening to pass to close ^[[over]] the chase was taken up again. Then they separated and