[Mfilter-devel] . Horsfield's nightjar (_C. macrurus_) is perhaps

[Gunto <rev...@ge...>]

R lay is heard all day long from March to October. Before attempting to
describe the familiar sound, I deem it prudent to recall to the mind of
the reader the notice that once appeared in a third-rate
music-hall:--"The audience are respectfully requested not to throw
things at the pianist. He is doing his best." To say that this warbler
emits incessantly four or five high-pitched, not very musical notes, is
to give but a poor rendering of his vocal efforts, but it is, I fear,
the best I can do for him. He is small, so that the volume of sound h