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Universal Effect of Music. — Contin. 



How A Chipmunk followed a Fiddle. 



" One flay last week a traveller on the Newmanville road so charmed a 

 chipmunk with music produced from a violin that the little rodent became 

 very tame and followed him for about a mile. When the music ceased it 

 resumed its wild nature and scampered back home." — From the Tlonesta 

 Commonwealth. 



See Animal Love of Music. (Harp. Mag., vol. xv., 1857, pp. 83- 

 85.) — Effect of Music on Lower Animals. {All the Year, n. s. vol. xxx., 

 Dec, 1882, p. 538.) — Fish, E. E. : Birds' Tastes for Color and Music. 

 {Pop. Sci. Mo., vol. XXV., 1884, pp. 715-716.) — Hawkins, Sir John : Hist, 

 of Music, voL ii. bk. 19, chap. 178, p. 835. — Kirclier, A.: Musurgia, 

 lib. ix. — Music of the Wild. (Litt. Liv. Age, vol. xxi., 1849, pp. 475- 

 476.) — Nat. Hist, of Birds (Harper & Bros., 1840), pp. 241-246.— 

 Plienomena of Music. {Eclec. Mag., n. s. vol. ix., 1869, pp. 368-372.) — 

 Pontecoulant, Marquis de: Les Phc'nomenes de la Musique. {Lib. /titer- 

 nationale, Paris, 1868.) — Scheie de Vere, M. R. B. : Music in Nature. 

 {Putnam's Mag., n. s. voL vi., 1870, pp. 173-182.) — Stearns, R. C. : In- 

 stances of the Effects of musical Sounds of Animals. {Amer. Naturalist, 

 vol. xxiv., 1890, pp. 22, 123, 236.) 



Effect of Music On Snakes. ^See Romanes, G. J. : Animal Intelli- 

 gence, chap. ix. p. 265. On Spiders, same work, chap. vi. pp. 205-207. 



^Esthetic sense denied to animals. See Viardot, L., in Pop. Sci. Mo., 

 vol. iv., 1873, pp. 729-735. (Trans, from Gazette des Beaux Arts.) 



Chickadee. {See p. 8.) 

 Flagg speaks of " two very plaintive notes " of the 

 chickadee, which he writes as follows : — 



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" They have a great variety of simple or quaint notes, all of which seem 

 to be expressive of perpetual happiness, for many of them are constantly 

 repeated throughout the year, and none are restricted to one season. 

 Besides their well-known chant, ' chick-a-dee-dee-dee-dee,' which has given 

 them their name,i they have an exquisite whistle of two notes (nearly 

 represented by high G and F, upon the piano), which is very sweet and 



1 The Chippewa Indians name the black-cap Kitch-i-kitch-i-ga-ne-shi. 



