WOODLAND SINGERS. 



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higher, and then falls in scintillant music a full oc- 

 tave, thus : 



cadeuza, 

 



a regular tumble-do wn-dick cadenza, which always 

 reminds me of this passage near the close of Bee- 

 thoven's Moonlight Sonata : 



and which, by the way, is exactly repeated in Cho- 

 pin's Impromptu Fantasia. A more perfect bit of 

 bird music (except its wide range) it would be diffi- 

 cult to imagine. 



The third songster, whose music can not possibly 

 be confused with that of either of the two thrushes I 

 have described, is Wilson's thrush, or the tawny 

 thrush, sometimes called veery (Turdus fuscescens). 

 This bird is a trifle larger than the hermit, and has 

 quite a tawny buff-brown color, the tone of which is 

 red, not at all like that of the wood thrush. There 

 are extremely few small spots on the breast, and 



