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Show Bird Jekyll and Hyde. The catbird is our northern mocking mock-ing bird. When love attunes its ( voice, It can warble as sweetly as the night ingale. You must catch it in one of its melting moods if you would know the charm of its liquid notes. It is not at all beautiful no more is the mocking bird only a gray-brown, perky, restless thing, of lesser size than the robin, with the soul of song In it, - The wonder of, the catbird lies, of course, in this, its dual nature. At one time it hops about screeching complaints com-plaints against the circumambent air; 'at another there throbs out from its delicate throat the essence of a divine melody. Philadelphia Press. |