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tional notes and calls are both varied and numer- 
ous. His regular song is a series of trills descend- 
ing the scale, and may be rendered as a trilled 
trea, trea, trea. Another form of this is tree, 
tree, trum, red, red. 
Last spring I was greatly puzzled by hearing 
in the woods what seemed, like the bleating of a 
lamb ; and although I soon suspected its source, 
it was some time before I saw the veery making 
this peculiar sound. It resembles a bleat so nearly 
that it can be fairly represented by the syllables 
ba-ah-ah. Mr. Brewster says it is a common note 
from the mountains of North Carolina to Maine 
and Labrador. I have heard it modified into a 
rapid run resembling fitaree. As far as I have 
observed, this bleating call is usually connected 
with flight, or motion of some kind. 
The commonest calls of the veery when undis- 
turbed are kree-ah and kree-wp. His kree!-whee-a 
is in a higher key and suggests alarm. One day 
I went through the bushes where a family of 
young were hiding. The mother sat on a branch 
looking down whisking her tail in dismay. Whee- 
ah! she called, and then added in undertone what 
seemed to be a warning, and sounded like be séi/d, 
be still / 
Sitting on a stump in the raspberry patch, I 
have drawn a number of veeries about me by imi- 
tating their kree-ah, and one of the rarest forest 
concerts I ever listened to began with this call. 
