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BIRD LANGUAGE. Any boy can whistle, most people can sing—in a way ; some can yodel, but only one man has been discovered up to date who can warble. His name is Charles D. Kellogg. He can warble like a thrush, canary, bobolink, oriole, meadow lark, scarlet tanager, blackbird, mocking-bird and many others, and he reproduces the various bird songs so marvellously that even the birds themselves respond to his calls, and it is no wonder that he can deceive human beings when the birds themselves are fooled. Mr. Kellogg possesses vocal abilities beyond^the range of any other human being, for scientific tests have demons- trated his ability to cover a range of vibratory tone of more than nine and a half octaves. Mr. Kellogg spends seven months each year in the woods and fields, and has penetrated to the ends of the world to study the birds in their natural haunts; he has faced adventures of every description to wrest the secret of then- lives and habits from them, and this he does with his camera and his Phonograph. To aid him in acquiring bird language with entire accuracy, Mr. Kellogg uses a Recorder specially prepared with a very sensitive diaphragm, usually of onionskin paper, with which he records for future study and analysis the most delicate bird notes—their cries of surprise, distress and alarm, as well as songs of joy and love, and calls to their young. Mr. Kellogg* 8 lectures on bird life are not a scientific analysi^of bird habits, but a series of personal anecdotes and narratives, with all the delicacy and aroma of camp life, superbly illustrated by photo-stereopticon views taken by Mr. Kellogg in the homes and haunts of the birds them- selves. Each series of photographs leads up to a song-bird