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Updated: June 2, 2025
Among the earliest sounds of spring is the cheerful, simple, homely song of the song-sparrow; and in March we also hear the piercing cadence of the meadow-lark to us one of the most attractive of all bird calls.
The chirp of the Song-Sparrow is also louder, and pitched on a lower key, than that of the present species. By careless observers, these two Finches, on account of the similarity in their general appearance and habits, are considered identical.
"I don't understand anything of what you're saying," returned the girl abruptly. "Well, isn't this a pretty path?" asked Thinkright, looking about them. "It seems only yesterday that all these evergreens were loaded with snow." As he spoke, a song-sparrow near by poured out a flood of melody. "Ah!" exclaimed the girl, her eyes glistening.
He listened, and caught the words, of a song issuing from a valley near the hillock upon which he sate. Softer than the plaintive cry of the dove, sweeter than the love-notes of the song-sparrow, was that song. Presently other voices could be heard laughing or singing, singly, or in concert.
No vireo hung there her dainty cup, while her mate preached his interminable sermons from the trees about; no phœbe shouted his woes to an unsympathizing world; no sweet-voiced goldfinch poured out his joyous soul; not a song-sparrow tuned his little lay within our borders. Unseen of men, but no doubt sharply defined to clearer senses than ours, was a line barring them out.
Yesterday, a little later, we both looked up from work at the notes of a song-sparrow in the nearest elm. The song was more elaborate for the perfect morning. It was so joyous that it choked me in the sunlight and elm-leaves. It stood out from all the songs of the morning because it was so near every note so finished and perfect, and we were each in the pleasantness of our tasks.
"Oh, please do, Carl, it hurts so!" she said, laying her little round hand in the big, strong, horny palm that had held the life-line the night of the wreck. The song-sparrow clung to the swaying top of a mullein-stalk near by, and poured out a strong, swelling, joyous song that well-nigh split its throat.
When we consider the life of the cow-bird, how suggestive is this spectacle which we may see every year in September in the chuckling flocks massing for their migration, occasionally fairly blackening the trees as with a mildew, each one the visible witness of a double or quadruple cold-blooded murder, each the grim substitute for a whole annihilated singing family of song-sparrow, warbler, or thrush!
So much for the pious Pelican, the emblem of reckless devotion a common, dirty little cock Sparrow would put them all to shame. We brought away only the 5 rotten eggs. About half of the old Pelicans had horns on the bill. On the island we saw a flock of White-winged Crossbills and heard a Song-sparrow. Gulls were seen about.
He seems to me to have a definite song, unlike that of any other bird, except the Red Mavis, not made up of parts of the songs of other birds, but as unique and original as that of the Song-Sparrow or the Robin.
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