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The natural history of Selborne
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Author: White Gilbert (1720-1793)
Year: 1789
My musical friend, at whose house I am now visiting, has tried all the owls that are his near neighbours with a pitch-pipe set at concert pitch, and finds they all hoot in B flat. He will examine the nightingales next spring.
Letter of Feb. 12, 1772
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