FAMILY Turdide. 
for a Robin; notice that the fellow has made his own 
response to his own motive, a thing which not every bird 
can do by any means: 
Allegro agitato. — —_ 
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Lightly and trippingly. 
The key was a perfectly obvious one and the song 
though sung in the usual wild, disconnected way of the 
Robin was excellent in its intervals and its note values. 
I have no record of a better song than that although 
others equal it. How characteristic it is of the Robin to 
sing in a nervous, hurried way, without ever a thought 
of the value of a sustained tone such as that which the 
Hermit Thrush gives us, and then when something or 
somebody disturbs him, to resent the interruption with 
an emphatic remonstrance in the diatonic scale or some: 
thing akin to it, thus *: 
How natural it is, too, for another fellow to enter the 
breach and without altering the key, revise the arrange 
ment of the theme, extend it, and proceed on inde- 
pendent lines in more insistant tones very nearly as 
follows: 
* I wish this did not remind one so much of the opening notes of 
that popular piece, which is doomed to an ephemeral existencg, 
called Hiawatha. f 
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