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the song, gaining in strength to the climax and then 

 dying away at the end, the next strophe will be a series 

 of notes given with hearty relish, and the third a melan- 

 choly strain melting, with purest flute notes, into a 

 gayer one. Pauses between the strophes heighten the 

 effect of these enchanting melodies; they and the 

 measured tempo must be noted, fully to comprehend 

 their beauty. We are amazed at first at the num- 

 ber and variety of these bewitching tones, then at their 

 fulness and power coming from a creature so small. 

 It seems almost a miracle that there can be such 

 strength in the muscles of its tiny throat." * Beck- 

 stein has attempted to write the syllables of its strophes 

 thus : f 



Tiuu-tiuu-tiuu-tiuu, 



Spe, tiuu, squa, 



Tio, tio, tio, tio, tio, tio, tio, tix, 



Qutio qutio qutio qutio, 



Zquo zquo zquo zquo, 



Tsii, tsii, tsii, tsii, tsii, tsli, tsii, tsli, tsii, tsi. 



Quoror, tiu, zqua, pipiqui, 



Zozozozozozozozozozozozo Zirrhading ! 



Tsisisi tsisisisisisisisi, 



Zorre, zorre, zorre, zorre hi; 



Tzatn, tzatn, tzatn, tzatn, tzatn, tzatn, tzatn, zi, 



Dlo, dlo, dlo, dlo, dlo, dlo, dlo, dlo, dlo, 



Quio tr rrrrrrrr itz 



Lii lii lii, ly, ly, ly, li li li, 



Quio, didl li lulyli. 



Ha glirr, giirr, quipio! 



Qui, qui, qui, qui, qi qi qi qi, gi gi gi gi ; 



* Xaumann, ii, p. 381. 



f J. M. Bechstein, Naturgeschichte der Stubenvogel, p. 321. 



