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Show MOUSE SINGS LIKE A BIRD. Barely Accomplished Rodent Is Now a Prisoner In Yorkshire, England. Singing mlco nro raro, but a correspondent corre-spondent writes from Yorkshire asking ask-ing whether wo can givo him any Information In-formation about a specimen ho captured. cap-tured. Ho adds: "It has been warbling Just llko a canary for tho last month in our workshop, and although I havo It In n cage It still continues to sing." That mlco do occasionally "sing" Is undeniable. Some observers say that their "song" Is softer, sweeter nnd moro delicate than that of tho canary, which ono can bcllovo quite easily. Others go so far as to comparo It to that of a warbler or oven a piping bullfinch. Uut tho question as to why thoy lift up their voices In this tuneful tune-ful manner still remains to bo answered. an-swered. Threo explanations have been suggested: sug-gested: First, that all mlco aro potential vocalists and can learn to sing, by Imitation, from singing birds. Second, that many mlco possess an exceptional talent for mimicry, together to-gether with a keen senso of tho ludicrous. ludi-crous. Third, that somo mlco nro subject to bronchitis nnd that tho so-called "song" Is only tho wheezing of rodents which suffer from tho distressing complaint. com-plaint. A certain amount of color Is given to tho last theory by tho fact that a mouso which was cnught by tho nock In a wiro trap not sufficiently strong to kill It "sang" whllo Its throat was under compression, hut never again during Its subsequent llfo as a captive. London Mall. |