8 JUNE IN FRANCONIA. 



a bird for which I had been ten years on the 

 watch. 



The song, which has not often been de- 

 scribed, is more suggestive of the Nashville's 

 than of any other, but so decidedly different 

 as never for a moment to be confounded with 

 it. "When you hear it," a friend had said 

 to me several years before, "you will know 

 it for something new." It is long (I speak 

 comparatively, of course), very sprightly, 

 and peculiarly staccato, and is made up of 

 two parts, the second quicker in movement 

 and higher in pitch than the first. I speak 

 of it as in two parts, though when my com- 

 panions came to hear it, as they did the next 

 day, they reported it as in three. We vis- 

 ited the place together afterwards, and the 

 discrepancy was readily explained. As to 

 pitch, the song is in three parts, but as to 

 rhythm and character, it is in two ; the first 

 half being composed of double notes, the 

 second of single notes. The resemblance to 

 the Nashville's song lies entirely in the first 

 part ; the notes of the concluding portion are 

 not run together or jumbled, after the Nash- 

 ville's manner, but are quite as distinct as 

 those of the opening measure. 



