8 JUNE IN FRANCONIA. 
a bird for which I had been ten years on the 
watch. 
The song, which has not often been de- 
scribed, is more suggestive of the Nashville’s 
than of any other, but so decidedly different 
as never for a moment to be confounded with 
it. ‘When you hear it,” a friend had said 
to me several years before, “you will know 
it for something new.” It is long (1 speak 
comparatively, of course), very sprightly, 
and peculiarly staccato, and is made up of 
two parts, the second quicker in movement 
and higher in pitch than the first. I speak 
of it as in two parts, though when my com- 
panions came to hear it, as they did the next 
day, they reported it as in three. We vis- 
ited the place: together afterwards, and the 
discrepancy was readily explained. As to 
pitch, the song is in three parts, but as to 
rhythm and character, it is in two; the first 
half being composed of double notes, the 
second of single notes. The resemblance to 
the Nashville’s song lies entirely in the first 
part; the notes of the concluding portion are 
not run together or jumbled, after the Nash- 
ville’s manner, but are quite as distinct as 
those of the opening measure. 
