. Familiar features of the roadside; the flowers, shrubs, birds, and insects. Natural history. BIRDS WITH UNMUSICAL VOICES. 129 can (many of them) imitate all creation from the voice of man down to a creaking barn door! Three of the strangest of the bird voices (they are also very familiar ones) are those of the whip-poor-. Wliip-poor-wilL will, night hawk, and screech owl. The first every one recognizes, and the uncanny tones of the last probably every one knows without being able to tell what kind of a creature they belong to. Both of these birds are, in a measure, musical, although it will
. Familiar features of the roadside; the flowers, shrubs, birds, and insects. Natural history. BIRDS WITH UNMUSICAL VOICES. 129 can (many of them) imitate all creation from the voice of man down to a creaking barn door! Three of the strangest of the bird voices (they are also very familiar ones) are those of the whip-poor-. Wliip-poor-wilL will, night hawk, and screech owl. The first every one recognizes, and the uncanny tones of the last probably every one knows without being able to tell what kind of a creature they belong to. Both of these birds are, in a measure, musical, although it will be difficult for me to represent by musical signs the true character of their singing. As every one, I suppose, can recall the exact intonation of the whip- poor-will's few notes, I imagine it will be interesting to see how they can be musically rendered : dd lib. f/l =120 - A ^ A Q^ A ?9: m ^ m p ff ^\m ^^Jc t kuM. Wblp-poor-wlU Whip-poor-wi kuh I ^ kak Whip-poor-will The "kuk" we can, only hear if we are within 10. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938. New York, D. Appleton and Company
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