Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1918 — Birds Get No Fun Out of Singing. [ARTICLE]

Birds Get No Fun Out of Singing.

“ThatJthe singing of birds bears no analogy to the singing of human be ings, and is neither to please themselves nor to please others, is obvious from at least two facts: One is that birds with defective or .only half ar ticulate' voices will sing just as Joyously and persistently as do birds whose Instruments are perfect” John Burroughs writes in Harper’s. “I have witnessed this in the case of the hermit thrush, the bobolink and the cockerel of the barnyard. The bird* of the wood and of the meadow quite ignored their split whistles, and the cockerel arched his neck and inflated his lungs and went through with the motions of crowing Just as proudly and repeatedly as did the cock he was challenging.”