Sparrow taught to sing by lark but not sufficiently: where sparrow got voice

Motif

Sparrow taught to sing by lark but not sufficiently: where sparrow got voice.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics from miscellaneous causes. · view the constellation · filed as A2271.2

Filed across the traditions

Lithuanian Balys Legends No. 266.

Within the index

Filed under Animal characteristics learned from another animal.

Filed beside it

Thrush teaches dove to build nest. (Cf. A2431.3.1.)

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