FAMILY Mniotiltide. 
Nor must we forget my first record which shows a final 
drop of fully a fifth! How to find a parallel between 
any of these types and the syllables given by various au- 
thors, I confess is a difficult problem; but I am disposed 
to consider that one of those given by Mr. Lynes Jones is 
adaptable; for instance, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet- 
er, sweet-er, if the syllables of the last two words are dis- 
tinctly separated, will fit song No.1. I get no further 
encouragement; even the notations of Mr. Cheney on 
page 47 of Wood Notes Wild do not correspond with 
anything I have heard from the bird, so the evidence 
goes to show that the little singer is versatile. It is 
a simple matter to prove that fact. Mr. Lynes Jones 
gives three forms of the song different from mine, and 
Mr. Cheney three more; to these must be added all but 
one of the records given here; a total of thirteen! The 
songs which end with the high note are many; here 
is one: 
and here is another, showing how the type remains the 
same though the bird rings a change in the positions of 
the last few notes: 
These two records were taken in Cambridge and the 
Arnold Arboretum between May 14 and 21, 1901, after 
Thad thought 1 had gauged all the possibilities of varia- 
tion in the song of this species! Eventually I have had 
to add still another type to my collection, whichstrangely 
reverses the order of the song, thus: 
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