FAMILY Fringillide. 
and one is surprised to find his song limited to a prom. 
ising but exceedingly short beginning; nothing more 
seems to follow! There is an attempt at melody and 
a failure to realize it. The common form of the song 
may be represented by dots, thus : 
2 Oi) ey re O24". Kosa he Bray Se 
Ernest E. Thompson writes it, chuck-burr, pill-a-will- 
a-will-a-will, which is a very fair representation of the 
notes providing one is told that the bird rapidly pro- 
gresses upward with clear whistled tones, first a fifth, 
and then about a fourth, so the whole compass covers 
approximately a jump of nine tones, or just one tone 
over an octave. This, however, would be the form of 
but one song, whether it is called common or not. 
Chuck-burr pill-a-will-a-will ete, 
Somehow or other these particular tones remind one of 
the violinist trying his violin, and one naturally waits 
for the bird to begin the real song—but he never does { 
Here is another form with a lesser jump—the first inter- 
val a third, and the second, a fowrth—which is certainly 
more satisfactory to the ear: 
Vivace. (The bird sings twice8va) 
These notes might 
be rendered at the 
piano asa trill 
i.e. DandE 
And here is again very nearly the same form dropped a 
full tone: 
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