. Bird lore . nce in volumeor range as the tiny size of the latter would lead one to suppose. For thediminutive wood Wrens are by no means always distinguishable by their songsfrom their larger cousins, and the variety and timbre of the notes of one genusis as endless as in the other. While no description or literal syllabification cando much to bring up an audital image of a birdsong, my notes, written onlyfor my own recollection, have these cryptic bits as the framework upon whichI hook my remembrance of Henicorhina songs: Yought to see Jim, Youghtto see Jim, But Mary wont let you (repeat fo
. Bird lore . nce in volumeor range as the tiny size of the latter would lead one to suppose. For thediminutive wood Wrens are by no means always distinguishable by their songsfrom their larger cousins, and the variety and timbre of the notes of one genusis as endless as in the other. While no description or literal syllabification cando much to bring up an audital image of a birdsong, my notes, written onlyfor my own recollection, have these cryptic bits as the framework upon whichI hook my remembrance of Henicorhina songs: Yought to see Jim, Youghtto see Jim, But Mary wont let you (repeat four times), Whip-wheeoo,correeoo. Perhaps no songs heard in the tropics are so characteristic, or make such astrong impression on the mind and desire of a naturalist, as these romanticand mysterious Wren songs. They assail the ear while riding along the moun-tain trails, and are the unending goal of many a sweltering still-hunt throughthe mosquitoful but otherwise Sabbath-still forest. For me, at least, a deep,. WOOD WREN (Henicorhina leucoslicta) 344 Bird-Lore humid mountain-forest never ceases to have a hushing, even oppressive,effect. Awed and tense, I find myself a foreign and discordant note in the giantstillness. With this half-guilty feeling, and hushed by the stern green silence,hypnotized, as it were, into a sort of subjective identity with the Sunday-likevacuum of sound and keyed to a nervous expectancy in tune with the heavyodorous stillness, the sudden singing of any of these brilliant-voiced woodWrens is sufficiently startling to make one recoil, lumpy-throated, and it isoften more than a mere second or two before the readjustment into the normalframe of mind can be made. The Wrens of the genus Thryophilus,which are closely allied to our CarolinaWren, deserve a high place in the scale of singers. I think the Colombianspecies* are the most versatile and surprising singers in the entire family; andthis is indeed high praise, for few if any birds, of their size, can su
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