Strange Songs of Birds.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 98, 20 December 1904, Page 3

Strange Songs of Birds.

Scott, of Princeton, continuing ; his experiments on the songs of various species of bird*, during the past year obtained some nestlings of bobolinks and red- winged blackbirds, and reared them where they could hear the songs of many other kinds of birds, but not the songs of their own species. After his birds , had grown b/ placeU competent judges of birdssongs within hearing, but not . within sight of tb>.n£ and~ asked what the birds were to whose sing- ' ing they were listening. In no instance was the song recognized.. •; ; and in the case of the bobolinks, in particular, an expert was wbol- ; ly unable to form an opinion as 1 to* what birds were producing the musir, although the singing was * loud and brilliant. — Youth's Companion, I 1 -^