. Bird-lore . ssquits have curious and explosive little buzzy sounds. Volatinia, araven-black mite living along the hedge-rows, has an amusing on the top of a grass or weedstalk, he suddenly rises in bee-like flightabout a yard into the air: at the apex of his little spring he turns a rapidsomersault, with a volatile Bzt, and drops back to his perch. The wholeeffort takes perhaps a second! Most of the Tanagers, which grade insensibly into the Finches, are notmuch when it comes to singing. However, the larger Saltators have clear,whistled songs that are highly charactertisic.
. Bird-lore . ssquits have curious and explosive little buzzy sounds. Volatinia, araven-black mite living along the hedge-rows, has an amusing on the top of a grass or weedstalk, he suddenly rises in bee-like flightabout a yard into the air: at the apex of his little spring he turns a rapidsomersault, with a volatile Bzt, and drops back to his perch. The wholeeffort takes perhaps a second! Most of the Tanagers, which grade insensibly into the Finches, are notmuch when it comes to singing. However, the larger Saltators have clear,whistled songs that are highly charactertisic. They are leisurely soprano songs,usually heard from thickets of soft growth on the mountain-sides. One songheard in the Eastern Andes that I ascribed to S. atripennis, though I couldnever quite satisfactorily prove the singer, was as loud, pure, and wide-rangeda song as I have heard. Though quite complicated, it was always identicallythe same in form and range. Two long descending slurs, one ascending, a long. ANDEAN WHITE-THROAT (Crachyspiza capensis) Bird - Lore descending trill, then a descending run in couplets (like a Canon Wren), arising slur, and a final short trill on a high note. In many songs, heard inseveral localities, this scheme was closely followed. The mountain forests ofthe tropics furnish an endless and enchanting field for this kind of study,which our hasty survey and limited time unavoidably rendered all too super-ficial and fragmentary. We found, as a rule, that the gemlike Tanagers of Calospiza, Chlorochrysa,etc., were nearly devoid of song. Their drifting flocks, sifting along throughthe tree-ferns and higher levels of the forest, were much like a flock of migra-ting Warblers, always made up of several species, and their little lisping soundswere further reminders of our north-ern tree-gleaners. The Cotingas, as a rule, weresilent, though some of the more Fly-catcher-like, such as Tytyra, haveloud, buzzy calls, and the big ones,like Pyroderus and Querula
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