Word: songster
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cannot, as the crow and the blue jay, while there are several sweet singers among the non-oscines. We have about 40 good singers. English critics say that our bird chorus is not to be compared with their own. It may be true that there is no one American songster like the skylark, but England can show only 23 song birds to our forty. Our birds are rather more retiring than English birds and usually sing only in the morning, while English birds of necessity haunt open fields and moreover sing all the day long...