MEADOWLARK. 
page 266 of his Handbook of Birds, which song, he says, 
is common about Englewood, N,. J.—a place where both 
the Meadowlark and the Wood Thrush sing as I have 
never heard them sing in the vicinity of Boston. I have 
given the minor response to this melody, but in the key 
of D flat, where it seems to me most Meadowlarks pitch 
their songs. 
The addition of the slurs enables one to whistle the air 
in exactly the Meadowlark’s manner, and the added ac- 
companiment shows the true value of the melody. I 
heard in Nantucket in the summer of 1903 a bird which 
sang with charming accuracy the following first two 
bars from Alfredo’s song in La Traviata: 
But this was sung in the same pathetic way in which 
Violetta sings it a little later in the same act, when she 
finds sho must give up Alfredo. There is an unmistak- 
able pathos in the bird’s song; one fellow at Wellesley 
Hills sang two bars of Aida’s ‘‘ Numi pieta” for me, 
note for note thus* : 
* See Verdi’s Opera of Aida, Act 1. 
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