some means of being observed and watched, the whole party, hen 

 and all, precipitately took to flight and disappeared. 



Other music than that with which the love-lorn creature 

 tries to give expression to its feelings then came under considera- 

 tion. Monkeys, said Dr. Treutler, might literally be said to sing, 

 for they utter musical sounds in ascending and descending scales, 

 with intervals of almost exact semi-tones. Several other animals 

 sing in true cadences of definite notes, notably the white-banded 

 mocking bird. Of him it was said, " This bird will begin his 

 performance by reproducing for the first half-hour with marvel- 

 lous fidelity the more or less melodious songs of a score of 

 species, and then, as if to show oft" by contrast his own greatly 

 superior powers, he will pour forth his own divine song with a 

 power and wild abandon in a continuous torrent of joyous notes 

 of surprising brilliance and variety. Hudson likens the song of 

 this bird to a melody sweetly played in tune, the notes never 

 coming in the same order again and again, but with endless 

 variations, like the most artistic improvisation, the song being 

 accompanied all the while with the most graceful and appropriate 

 and harmonious movements. These outpourings. Dr. Treutler 

 demonstrated, were certainly not the " song of yearning or 

 unsatisfied love." It was rather an expression of joy and 

 gladness. He would go so far as to say that music existed in all 

 animals as a part of their nature, and was employed by them to 

 express emotion or feelings under various forms of excitement. 



Discussing the question of music amongst man. Dr. Treutler 

 said, " Whereas the vocal and musical powers of animals, birds, 

 and insects are practically the same now, at the present day, 

 as they were thousands of years ago, the music of man has 

 advanced from crude and rudimentary forms and has developed 

 into an Art. The note of the cuckoo, the song of the nightin- 

 gale, or of the La Plata mocking bird are the same now that 

 they were ages ago and long before man appeared upon the 

 scene." Granting even that sexual selection may have influenced 

 and determined the development of music in its early stages, it 

 was wholly insufficient to account for the vast progress and high 

 degree of refinement of modern music. A capacity for music 

 might exist without any high development of the musical art. 

 It would appear (he said) that the sense of music is and has been 

 inherent in human nature from the earliest times ; that musical 

 faculties and talents may be latent in races and dormant in 

 individuals requiring but a suitable combination of circumstances 

 for their development and adequate training and exercise to 

 bring them to perfection. A noteworthy instance of this is 

 furnished by the Jews, who have within the last 100 years deve- 

 loped to a remarkable degree their musical capacity with which 

 they appear to have been endowed from very early times, but 



