Thanks Sue for your very helpful comment. I have another question from another sentence below the previous one.
He says, "Sometimes I heard four or five at once in different parts of the wood, by accident one a bar behind another, and so near me that I distinguished not only the cluck after each note, "
Is he using the word "bar" as a musical term with this definition: "the line marking the division between two measures of music."? Since I have not heard anything but cars engines around me and am not familiar with the bird Thoreau is talking about here, I would really appreciate it if you could kindly explain in some details about what is happening here in these few lines.
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