. Wood notes wild, notations of bird music; . mounton tiptoe in an ecstasy of enthusiasm and delight at the unrivalledharmony of its own voice. The notes are wholly warbled, now loud,clear, and vaulting with a querulous air, then perhaps sprightly, andfinally lower, tender, and pathetic. In short, I am not acquainted withany of our birds superior in song to the present, with the solitary excep-tion of our Orphean Mocking-bird. — Nuttall, T.: Manual of Ornithology,p. 623. See also Lunt, H.: Across Lots, p. 109. Mr. Burroughs thinks that this performer has fine talents, but notgenius (in his Wak
. Wood notes wild, notations of bird music; . mounton tiptoe in an ecstasy of enthusiasm and delight at the unrivalledharmony of its own voice. The notes are wholly warbled, now loud,clear, and vaulting with a querulous air, then perhaps sprightly, andfinally lower, tender, and pathetic. In short, I am not acquainted withany of our birds superior in song to the present, with the solitary excep-tion of our Orphean Mocking-bird. — Nuttall, T.: Manual of Ornithology,p. 623. See also Lunt, H.: Across Lots, p. 109. Mr. Burroughs thinks that this performer has fine talents, but notgenius (in his Wake-robin, pp. 67-68). The Authors Power of Memory. (See p. 76). The authors tenacious memory of both sound and sightis illustrated by the following notation of an old melodyand by an extract from a letter dated January, 1888. Learned this at sixteen as John Foss whistled it insmooth full tones when we were making horseshoes,evenings. This was while the irons were heating. APPENDIX. 189 The Authors Power of Memory. — Contin. Dec. 15, \Jt f T r trt/c^r r rli^Cr r T^-^n JJl (d) 1 ^^—^W—! L—L -s—»«J—\ft»^— I have had three wonderful horses, all small, — OldPink, Old Dresser Mare, and Lightfoot. I have writtenthem up. Have a photograph of Dresser and Lightfoot;and can from memory dictate a good picture of old me! I have omitted Flying Jennie, the most grand-est of all, of whom you know little. I have her also pho-tographed in my eye, and shall have while I dwell herebelow. These four animals were not surpassed for rarequalities by any that I have known of. Each was a won-der. Old Dresser was fifteen years old before she washarnessed. You remember her at forty. Think of that! Red-eyed Vireo. (See p. 78.) Their song consists of a few notes, which are warbled again andagain with little intermission or variety (and which are sometimes inter-rupted now and then by a low whistle). This music would be monoto-nous were it not for its wonderful cheerfulne
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