. Wood notes wild, notations of bird music; . ES WILD. Wood Thrush. — Contin. small bell, and seems to leave the conclusion suspended. Each part of itssong seems sweeter and richer than the preceding. — Baird, Brewer, andKidgway : North American Birds. Land-Birds, vol. i p. 9 The prelude to this song resembles almost the double- tonguing of theflute, blended with a tinkling, shrill, and solemn warble, which re-echoesfrom his solitary retreat like the dirge of some sad recluse, who shuns thebusy haunts of life. The whole air consists usually of four parts, or bars,which succeed in deliberate ti
. Wood notes wild, notations of bird music; . ES WILD. Wood Thrush. — Contin. small bell, and seems to leave the conclusion suspended. Each part of itssong seems sweeter and richer than the preceding. — Baird, Brewer, andKidgway : North American Birds. Land-Birds, vol. i p. 9 The prelude to this song resembles almost the double- tonguing of theflute, blended with a tinkling, shrill, and solemn warble, which re-echoesfrom his solitary retreat like the dirge of some sad recluse, who shuns thebusy haunts of life. The whole air consists usually of four parts, or bars,which succeed in deliberate time, and finally blend together in impressiveand soothing harmony, becoming more mellow and sweet at every repeti-tion. — Nuttall, T.: Manual of Ornithology, p 391. See Our Birds. (New Eng. Mag., vol. i., 1831, pp. 330-331.) Big-tree Thrush. Mr. L. Belding, in his paper, The Small Thrushes ofCalifornia (Calif. Acad. Sci., Proceedings, 2d ser., vol. ii.,Oct. 1, 1889, pp. 68, 69), gives the song of the big-treethrush {Turdus sequoiensis).. Slow. Compare first two measures of No. 1 with this : —Wood Thrush. jtS: ^ iE ^ And first measure of No. 2 with this : — Wood Thrush. APPENDIX. 163 Big-tree Thrush. — Contin. Mr. Belding writes under date January 6,1891: — I am familiar with the songs of the veery, of Mustelinus,and all which breed in Northern Pennsylvania. The tone ofT. Sequoiensis is strikingly different from that of any thrush Iknow, though it is remarkable that its most frequent song hasthe identical intervals that the wood thrush has. I have lis-tened to the song of T. Sequoiensis many, many hours, usuallytoward evening, often when it was quite dark. Tawny Thrush. {See p. 58.) The song of this thrush is quaint, but not unmusical; variable in itscharacter, changing from a prolonged and monotonous whistle to quickand almost shrill notes at the close. Their melody is not unfrequentlyprolonged until quite late in the evening, and in consequence in someportions of
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