CHAPrKK VI. 

 SOME w<»xi»i:i;f(i. s()X(;s and call Notes. 



Sight an<i Sound— Cheered l.y a Sparrow's Chirpini,'— Wliy I5ird> 

 Sing— While the ^lusie is Made— A Ludien.us rerfurinane. — 

 How I!irds Learn to Sing— Timing a Skylarks Voeal Exercist s 

 —Singing Competitions among Chattinches — The I'lionograpli s 

 Heeord of Ihriish* s' Songs— lUaekhirds as Vocalists — Tlie 'i'imo 

 wlien Birds lie-in t<t Sing in the Morning and Crase to Sing in 

 the Evening— Til. • Nightingale - Tlir Sedge Warlder — Thr 

 Grasshopper Warhl. r — V.ntrilo<iuial iJirds — The Nightjar— 

 IN ewits- ihr Conunon Snipe and its Weird Sound — What a 

 Cuekoo s.iys when lie is Angry— Frightened to Death ])y a 

 Tawny Owl's Hooting— Hirds that Sing lJorr<. wed Songs: The 

 Starling, the Sedge Warhler, the Marsh Warl)ler, the Kol)in, the 

 House Sparrow, the Ked iSa-ked Shriko-The IMaekc^ip Warhler 

 — I'.ird Language I'.iids that Aet as Sentinels-Call Notes 1 he 

 Ked (Jn.usc— The Long-tailed Tit -Call Notes that Keseuihle 

 < »lher Sounds-- IJahy I'.inls that Kecognisc the Call Notes of their 

 Pan nts —Iliiils that Ke(|uire Conr.l.urative Kviden-r. 



TuLKK is probaldy no country nndrr iIk' sun wliicli 

 is at once so crowded willi \>\i^\ liuman life and 

 su tillfd with tlic joyous iiiclo(ly of wild l.ird 

 SOUL,"- as Britain. 



I have list. 11. -d to .Hu- leathered vocahsts (hn'iui; 

 every liour ot the (hiy and iiiL;"]it in sohtary marshes 

 and ."ii l>r.ezy ni.Huitaiii t.»|)s, in sh.tdy cu[).ses and 

 tlower - d.'.ked meadows, on Ioik'|\- ishmds and 

 witliin s.iimd of the i-oariiiL,'" hum n[ hi^r cities, from 

 ihe most northern of the Shethmd Isle.s to the 



