. Wood notes wild, notations of bird music; . ed example of theseperformances is a jerky flight straight upward perhapsfifty feet, and a descent in the same fussy fashion. Thefavorite time is just before dusk; but if there be a moon,a carousal of some sort goes on all night, — the evident 80 WOOD NOTES WILD. intention being to let no migrating lady-chat pass with-out a hearty invitation to cease her wandering and toaccept a husband and a home. After all, the chat can hardly be said to have a longest strain that I have heard from him is with-out melody, closely resembling the rhythmic
. Wood notes wild, notations of bird music; . ed example of theseperformances is a jerky flight straight upward perhapsfifty feet, and a descent in the same fussy fashion. Thefavorite time is just before dusk; but if there be a moon,a carousal of some sort goes on all night, — the evident 80 WOOD NOTES WILD. intention being to let no migrating lady-chat pass with-out a hearty invitation to cease her wandering and toaccept a husband and a home. After all, the chat can hardly be said to have a longest strain that I have heard from him is with-out melody, closely resembling the rhythmic movementof the yellow-billed cuckoos effort, but wholly unlike itin quality of tone. He will burst out with loud, rapidtones, then suddenly retard and diminish to the close: Hit. & dim. t ttitimtt t i i i t t I have heard this strain many times in the course ofan hour, and am satisfied that it has no one pitch or following are the principal notes of this chat, butit is not to be understood that they always come in likeorder:—. Quirp, quirp. (3) WOOD NOTES WILD. 81 ^^-^r—g t ^ J ^ Quirp, P charr, charr,Hit. & dim. . rt g g g e s e g g * g- g g p^^ Charr, charr, charr. Eit. & dim. [jTc c c c =c=c i g r-t-^f-^ Whirr, whirr, whirr. BOBOLIJSTK. DOLICHOirrX obyzivortis. THE mere mention of his name incites is the embodiment of frolic song, theone inimitable operatic singer of the feathered the oriole has a stronger and more commandingvoice, and the thrushes far surpass him in deep, pure andsoul-stirring tones, he has no rival; even the mocking-bird is dumb in his presence. In the midst of hisrollicking song he falls with bewitching effect into aventriloquous strain, subdued, as if his head were underhis wing; but soon the first force returns with a swell,and he shoots up into the air from the slender twig uponwhich he has been singing and swinging in the wind,plying just the tips of his wings to paddle himself alongin his reckless hilarit
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