FAMILY Turdide2. 
This was the Rhine daughters mo- 
> tive which the little Warbler SA1G. 
But we have not yet exhausted the resources of the 
musicianly Thrush. In Richard Strauss’s Symphonia 
Domestica occurs this melodic phrase: 
From Symphonia Domestica” 
Either Dr. Strauss copied the Hermit or the Hermit 
copied Dr. Strauss (if we choose to think music is some- 
times plagiarized), for the bird sang. that very phrase, 
July 1, 1901, in a pasture in Campton, but this way: 
Somehow or other the motives of the Hermit all fit 
together in a remarkably harmonious fashion, and it is 
a very simple matter to combine the antiphonal songs of 
two singers so they form a unit of musical thought; 
here is a demonstration of that idea; I have not inter- 
fered in the least with the key or a single note of any 
one of the phrases. 
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