WHITE-THROATED SPARROW. 
dealings, and advises her admirers to let him alone! 
The music expresses all the discouragement which is 
embodied in the White-throat’s song; observe how the 
tones drop down the chromatic scale in precisely the 
same way. 
Allegretto. - “3\ dim. 
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There is always that attractiveness of novelty in this 
Sparrow’s music which enlists one’s curiosity; the little 
fellow sings Carmen’s song in Tuckerman’s Ravine un- 
der the shadow of Mt. Washington, Turiddu’s song 
under the brow of Mt. Tecumseh, and the Di Provenza 
from Traviata, in the Pemigewasset Valley. The ques- 
tion arises, what will he do next, somewhere else? Possi- 
bly he will choose still another interval for his whistle 
and advise that farmer ‘‘ Peverly ” to sow rye! In every 
instance, however, he will not depart from his own pre- 
conceived ideas of rhythm, which may or may not ex- 
actly correspond with some operatic air which has stuck 
in our own head. In the History of North American 
Birds, by Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, I find this: 
** Notwithstanding the slighting manner in which the 
song of this bird is spoken of by some writers, in certain 
parts of the country its clear, prolonged, and peculiar 
whistle has given it quite a local fame and popularity. 
Among the White Mountains, where it breeds abun- 
dantly, it is known as the Peabody-bird, and its remark- 
ably clear whistle resounds in all their glens and secluded 
recesses.” That isagood summary of the popular esteem 
in which this bird is held. Dr. M, L. Leach has written 
an interesting account of the song of the White-throated 
Sparrow, in the course of which he says (alluding to the 
form already given in my records), ‘‘ The arrangement 
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