Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1911 — Bird Jekyll and Hyde. [ARTICLE]

Bird Jekyll and Hyde.

The catbird is our northern mocking bird. When love attunes its voice, it can warble as sweetly as the nightingale. You must catch it in one of its melting moods if you would know the charm of its liquid notes. It is not at all beautiful —no more is the mocking bird —only a gray-brown, perky, restless thing, of lesser size than the robin, with the soul of song in it. The wonder of the catbird lies, of course, in thiß, its dual nature. At one time it hops about screeching complaints against the circumambient air; at another there throbs out from its delicate throat the essence of a divine melody.—Philadelphia Press.