A SPARROW QUARTETTE. 79 



strangely enough, he closed every trill with a ris- 

 ing inflection, just as a speaker who gets into a 

 sing-song habit, often closes every sentence with 

 an upward slide. 



Could the four vocalists described in this paper 

 be heard singing simultaneously — the chippy on 

 a dead twig, the bush-sparrow at the border of the 

 woodland, the grass-finch from a fence-stake, and 

 the song-sparrow on a tall bush in the bottom — no 

 loyal American would have cause to blush for the 

 choral of the sparrow quartette. 



