118 WOOD NOTES WILD. 



Music in Nature. — Contin. 



The wood-pewee sings long and well-sustained tones : — 



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The song of the meadow lark is very choice in point of 

 melody, often beginning with — 



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S 



and soon adding 



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and, further on, — 



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Nor is this all the beautiful melody of the meadow lark, 



" A few mornings since I heard a chewink singing the 

 first strain of 'Kock of Ages,' cutting it a little short 

 with a trill: — 



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I have remembered for forty years the song of an oriole, 

 illustrating the old form of the minor scale, — the seventh 

 sharp ascending, natural descending : — 



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