AMERICAN GOLDFINCH, 
ge 200 Vivace. 
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the pitch and the key are of no particular value, but the 
relative positions of the notes accurately represent the 
fluctuations of the tones of voice. A second record 
which follows (the two fit together nicely) does not show 
anything essentially different in principle. 
There are the same rapid upward and downward chirps, 
and finally the little musical addendum—the per-chic-o- 
ree ; this last he indulges in with exceptional gusto while 
he ison the wing. His habit is (particularly in the late 
afternoon) to chase about at no great height in the ‘blue 
summer sky for nothing in particular but the pleasure of 
the thing, and tell all the world that he is feeling re- 
markably ‘‘chipper”; as he goes he sings with a thin 
wiry voice: 
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Per-chic-o - ree. 
and he does so rhythmically with his undulating flight, 
always breaking out with the song just at the crest of the 
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