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resemble, at times, 'tshippe-tshayia too too, and some- 

 times 'tshippee 'tshippee, (lispingly) too too, (with the 2 

 last syllables loud and full.) These notes are also varied 

 by some birds so as to resemble 'tsh 'tsh 'tsheetshoo tsliou, 

 tshoo * also 'tsh 'tsheefd 'tshccfd Hsiieefd, tshoo, and 'k'tuf 

 a tuf a tdf a tea kerry ;t another bird I have occasionally 

 heard to call for hours, with some little variation, tu, teo 

 teoteotoo in a loud, querulous, and yet almost ludicrously 

 merry strain. At other intervals, the sensations of soli- 

 tude seem to stimulate sometimes a loud and interrogato- 

 ry note, echoed forth at intervals, as, k'l^ry kerry 1 and 

 terminating plaintively kWry k'rry kWry 'tu, the voice 

 falling off very slenderly in the last long syllable, which 

 is apparently an imitation from the Cardinal Grosbeak, 

 and the rest is derived from the Crested Titmouse whom 

 they have already heard in concert as they passed through 

 the warmer states. Another interrogatory strain which I 

 heard here in the spring of 1830 was precisely, 'yyp 

 *kWry, 'yyp, 'yyp k'rry, very loud and oft repeated. Anoth- 

 er male went in his ordinary key, tsherry tsherry, tship- 

 ee tsh'rry, notes copied from the exhaustless stock of the 

 Carolina Wren (also heard on his passage), but modulated 

 to suit the fancy of our vocalist. The female likewise 

 sings, but less agreeably than the male. One which I had 

 abundant opportunity of observing, while busied in the toil 

 of weaving her complicated nest, every now and then, as a 

 relief from the drudgery in which she was solely engaged, 

 sung, in a sort of querulous and rather plaintive strain, the 

 strange, uncouth s)llables, 'kd ked 'kowd, kcka keka, the 

 final tones loud and vaulting, which I have little doubt were 



* The first 3 of these notes are derived from the Summer Yellow Bird, though 

 not its most usual tones. 



t The last phrase loud and ascending , the tea plaintive, and the last syllable tender 

 and echoing. 



