FAMILY TYurdidz. 
() ¢ : Ars. D 
LY ¢ Fe oy @)0P 2 aba SboQOeoow 
7. mh : 
(eer) BSD SS] 
LS) Ae 
/ ann 
Apparently this is the form recorded by Mr. Cheney, 
thus * ; 
fr 
This record from Mr Cheneys Wood NotesWild” - 
simply shows a different method of notations 
But the general principle remains the same; the swing- 
ing slurs are there, and so is the sustained, deliberate 
high tone, and the pianissimo introduction. I have also 
heard another variation involving a complete change in 
the relationship of the tones; in this instance the Veery 
dropped the chromatic scale and adopted in its stead dis- 
tinct intervals: 
Sostenuto. Sees oe an SS es 
Hw we Se eA BSS fe fa Ba 
1) “2g If if | # | If | | 
'. te A A = BE ST a ey 
fA) : are reais ar ares 
A baal a BA 
ANZ LSS 
The tones were bell-like and resonant, in fact, the singer 
was the best of his kind I have ever heard. There isa 
predominant overtone to all of the Veery’s notes, he 
never whistles a perfectly clear tone unless it is that of 
his call-note, the rather softly rendered whieu, but even 
this is broadly slurred, just exactly as any one might 
whistle it in token of surprise; so it does not in the re- 
motest way resemble a pure. clear tone such as that 
sung by the Chickadee. Moreover the bird has another 
* Vide Wood Notes Wild, page 58. 
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