94 THE ROLLER CANARY 
Aufzug (short breath, recovery).—The ground tones 
of Aufzug are i, e, 4, 6, ie. The consonants are tz, trs, 
ck, g, d, st. The syllables formed are tzri, strisz, gritz, 
ritsch, ritz, retsch. 
We get several qualities, soft, quiet, long, short, weak, 
hard, shrill and sharp. Among other things the con- 
sonants are sharply accentuated in combination with the 
vowels given and the beak is opened wide. Where the 
Aufzug is weak, the opening of the beak is not so pro- 
nounced. Points are deducted according to the extent 
of the demerits. 
INTERJECTIONS AND EXCLAMATIONS 
By call notes we understand so-called interjections 
and exclamations with which some birds prelude their 
song or introduce into it during its course. In present- 
day birds they have happily become scarce, art and 
diligence having succeeded in breeding them out; for 
all that there are faulty specimens occasionally to be met 
with. The sounds we come across are wid-wid, id-id, 
wis-wis (whispering), will-will, tzick-tzick, tzitt-tzitt, siss- 
siss-siss, tzep-tzep, hie, eye, wy, and similar objectionable 
noises. The penalty points for these range higher 
comparatively than in Aufzug. 
Tzitt, Schnetter, Schnatter—These three bad faults 
are also no longer so plentiful as in former times. The 
Tzitt fault occurs when it appears no longer as the 
interjection already referred to, but is repeated con- 
tinuously as a tour. Schnetter proceeds from a weak, 
unmusical, hard or broad Schwirre or Bell, and also in 
the form of dsched-sched-sche. Schnatter is related 
to Schnetter, harping on dschad-dschad, and is the 
