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42 BIRD-SONGS. 
blue, the yellow-rumped, and the chestnut-sided, 
sing two melodies each, while the blue golden- 
winged has at least three; and this, of course, 
without making anything of slight variations 
such as all birds are more or less accustomed to 
indulge in. The best of the three songs of the 
blue golden-wing I have never heard except on 
one occasion, but then it was repeated for half 
an hour under my very eyes. It bore no re- 
semblance to the common dsee, dsee, dsee, of 
the species, and would appear to be seldom 
used ; for not only have I never heard it since, 
but none of the writers seem ever to have 
heard it at all. However, I still keep a careful 
description of it, which I took down on the 
spot, and which I expect some future golden- 
wing to verify. 
But the most celebrated of the warblers in 
this regard is the golden-crowned thrush, other- 
wise called the oven-bird and the wood wagtail. 
His ordinary effort is one of the noisiest, least 
melodious, and most incessant sounds to be 
heard in our woods. His song is another mat- 
ter. For that he takes to the air (usually start- 
ing from a tree-top, although I have seen him 
rise from the ground), whence, after a prelim- 
inary chip, chip, he lets falls a hurried flood of 
notes, in the midst of which can usually be dis- 
tinguished his familiar weechee, weechee, wee- 
