. Field book of wild birds and their music; a description of the character and music of birds, intended to assist in the identification of species common in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains . iTiis record/rom JTr. Cheneys Wood Notes Wild■simply s/toyrs d different method of notation* But the general principle remains the same; the swing-ing slurs are there, and so is the sustained, deliberatehigh tone, and the pianissimo introduction. I have alsoheard another variation involving a complete change inthe relationship of the tones; in this instance the Veerydropped the chromatic scal
. Field book of wild birds and their music; a description of the character and music of birds, intended to assist in the identification of species common in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains . iTiis record/rom JTr. Cheneys Wood Notes Wild■simply s/toyrs d different method of notation* But the general principle remains the same; the swing-ing slurs are there, and so is the sustained, deliberatehigh tone, and the pianissimo introduction. I have alsoheard another variation involving a complete change inthe relationship of the tones; in this instance the Veerydropped the chromatic scale and adopted in its stead dis-tinct intervals: Sostehoto. scce).. The tones were bell-like and resonant, in fact, the singerwas the best of his kind I have ever heard. There is apredominant overtone to all of the Veerys notes, henever whistles a perfectly clear tone unless it is that ofhis call-note, the rather softly rendered whieu, but eventhis is broadly slurred, just exactly as any one mightwhistle it in token of surprise; so it does not in the re-motest way resemble a pure, clear tone such as thatsung by the Chickadee. Moreover the bird has another * Vide Wood Notes Wild, page VEERY. call-note, very loud and strongly burred, to which hecommonly resorts when annoyed or alarmed. Sva. /WW Whisile uHum lo m pper note,wer note. In Baird, Brewer, and Ridgways North American Birds(vol. i., pg. 10) is this account of the song: There is asolemn harmony and a beautiful expression which com-bine to make the song of this Thrush surpass that of allthe other American Wood Thrushes ; it consists of an inexpressibly delicate metallic utterance of the s
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