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"It is quite common to hear the bird sing this song through two or 

 three times without a pause. At other times it may sing the last part 

 of the song only." 



He says that all the breeding birds of this species that he heard in 

 Montana sang a somewhat different song from that of the eastern 

 birds: "The songs of eastern and western birds are alike in the first 

 two parts, but in the third and loudest part they are very different, the 

 western bird singing whdytay, whdtay, whdytay, whdtay, with the accent 

 strongly on the first note, rather than the last. I have heard songs 

 like those of the eastern bird from migrating individuals in Montana, 

 and Weydemeyer has reported a number in northwestern Montana 

 with the eastern song." 



Weydemeyer (1923) describes a very elaborate and probably a 

 very unusual song, as follows: 



The first two parts were the same as in the usual song, but the final notes were 

 quite different and much more pleasing. The song sounded something like this: 

 Kezee kezee, zeek, zeek, eek, eek, eek, eek, chiva, chiva, chiva, chiva, chiva, chiva, 

 chiva, chiva-lete! te-telete! te-telete! te-telete! te-telete! Nearly every day that 

 summer and fall, except during the molting season, this song, or a portion of it, 

 was heard in the flat. As the nesting season approached, the song was not so 

 often heard, and usually when it was, only the last part was given. During Aug- 

 ust it was seldom heard; by September, the last part was heard occasionally; 

 and by the middle of that month the song was again given as in the spring. 



In 1909 in southern Labrador, and again in 1912 in Newfoundland, 

 when my hearing was only fairly good, I evidently missed the high- 

 pitched first part of the song, and wrote down the other, louder parts 

 as toot, toot, toot, peabody, peabody, peabody, or the latter part as liberty, 

 liberty, liberty, the phrases often repeated more than three times; 

 again I wrote the latter part in French as toute suite, toute suite, 

 toute suite! I also recorded an alarm note, a loud pen, peu, almost as 

 loud as the similar note of some thrushes. 



Dr. Harrison F. Lewis (1920) recorded five types of song-endings, 

 as heard from migrating birds near Quebec during the season of 1920, 

 which he classified as follows: 



1. wud-a-wee't, wud-a-weit, etc. (3 syllables, accent on third), 1 record. 



2. pul-4-cho, pul-6-cho, etc. (3 syllables, accent on second), 2 records. 



3. jim-in-y, jim-in-y, etc. (3 syllables, accent on first), 50 records. 



4. you-eit, you-e4t, etc. (2 syllables, accent on second), 1 record. 



5. p6-to, pS-lo, etc. (2 syllables, accent on first), 9 records. 



The third song-ending seems to have been by far the commonest, 

 and agrees very closely with what I heard on the breeding grounds. 

 The fifth is much like the common call of the tufted titmouse. Francis 

 H. Allen's notes for August 17, 1928, at Matamek, Quebec, state: 

 "I heard a puzzling incoherent song which I soon traced to a young 

 ruby-crowned kinglet. The song was a long-continued succession of 



