A gentleman had in his bird-room a deformed blue jay, who was
reared from the nest and never associated with his kind. In the
room was also a cardinal grosbeak, one of the finest singers of
his family. The young blue jay learned the song of the cardinal
so perfectly that the gentleman could not tell it from the
cardinal’s own. “Even when hearing the two performers almost
together, I could distinguish only a slight difference, which
was not in the cardinal’s favor.”--OLIVE THORNE MILLER,
“The Bird Our Brother.”
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