Braddock, in his Notes on Montevideo, writes “A yellow bird, most commonly called a Afilada, also sometimes Razored Mouth, was shot in a Humboldt’s willow near Treinta y Tres, and though mortally wounded, immediately began to warble a song, melody rising and falling, rhythm impeccably maintained, which continued until its last moments, at which point it dropped from branch to basis and thwacked its head on the thickest root.”
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