APPENDIX. 



117 



Music in Nature. (See p. 2.) 



"With this same article for his text, the author writes 

 again at length : " Do the birds ' never sustain notes ' ? 

 Listen to the loon, our largest bird, calling to her young 

 in time of peril with a loud, long tone so startlingly like 

 the human voice : — 



^ 



^ 



Here is a ' fourth and a true third.' Descend, now, and 

 listen to one of the smallest of our singing-birds, the 

 titmouse : — 



f r,f r"^ rr^r r r 



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The chickadees sustain these notes longer than we do the 

 half and quarter notes in Dundee or Old Hundred. Here 

 is a ' true third ' and a true second ; and they are sung 

 with a purity of tone not to be equalled this side of 

 heaven. The little black-throated green warbler sings 

 with marked distinction and moderation, — 



9,va. 



j) f f r r 



Here is the true major third, and the strain is identical in 

 melody with ' Larboard Watch Ahoy ' : — 



M r- p f p ^ 



