GGo, APPENDIX. 



No. V. 



EXPERIMENTS and OBSERVATI- 

 ONS on the SINGING of BIRDS, 

 by the Hon. DAINES BARRING- 

 TON. In a letter to MATHEW 

 MATY, M.D. Sec. R. S. 1773. 



From the Philosophical Transactions, Vol. LXIII.- 



Dear Sir, 



AS the experiments and obfervations 1 mean 

 to lay before the Royal Society relate to 

 the finging of birds, which is a fubjedt that hath 

 never before been fcientifically treated of % it may 

 not be improper to prefix an explanation of fome 

 uncommon terms, which I mail be obliged to ufe, 

 as well as others which I have been under a neceffi- 

 ty of coining. 



* Kircber, indeed, in his Mufurgia, hath given us fome 

 few pa/Tages in the fong of the nightingale, as well as the 

 call of a quail and cuckow, which he hath engraved in mufical 

 characters. Thefe inflances, however, only prove that fome 

 birds have in their fong, notes which correfpond with the in- 

 tervals of our common fcale of the mufical ottave. 



To 



