FAMILY Fringillide. 
The next is also from the same place, and shows that the 
bird occasionally stops short of the final so-called trill: 
Vivace. 
I should say at once in reference to the term trill, that 
in my estimation the Chewink rapidly repeats one 
tone and does not actually trill. Mr. Cheney evidently 
thought otherwise, for all his records of this bird’s 
music show two alternating tones for the final note; but 
I think a close study of the song will convince the lis- 
tener that this is unquestionably composed of a single 
tone rapidly reiterated. There are undoubtedly many 
variations of the Chewink’s song, and it is not impossi- 
ble that some birds may trill, just as others may adopt 
for a time some unusual form, in proof of which Mr. 
Cheney remarks: ‘‘ This bird, like many others, can ex- 
temporize finely when the spirit moves him: For several 
successive days, one season, a Chewink gave me very 
interesting exhibitions of the kind. He fairly revelled 
in the new song, repeating it times without number. 
Whether he stole it from the first strain of Rock of 
Ages or it was stolen from him or some of his family, 
is a question yet tc be decided. The following is an 
exact copy of his variation”: 
a . 
Cal? ican », CRIED DARED 
f Ee ner Be a 
NB? (I question the heythe Chewink must 
have sung this higher than twice 8va.) 
The Chewink is distinctively a ground bird, and con- 
sequently one whose song will be heard issuing from the 
shrubbery more frequently than from the topmost twig 
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