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THE ROCK THRUSH AND THE BABBLERS.
Then there is the Idle School Boy (Myiophonus horsfieldii) better known to the ear than the eye, for few birds have been endowed with so rich a voice, and it would be world-famous as a songster if it could only learn a tune. It is always practising, but makes no progress. It is as large as a Blackbird and almost blacker, but its forehead and shoulders are brilliant cobalt blue, and its back and breast slightly spattered with the same. It loves mountain streams and water-falls and batters snails upon a smooth rock as the dhobie does shirts.
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