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RECORDING BIRD MUSIC 



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their decadent brethren who are able to express the melody that is 

 in them without passing beyond the confines of the natural sphere 

 of music. Here and there the reporter of bird music will meet with 

 a song sparrow phrase that is pure melody, as determined by the 



Notatioi^S. 



i. Wood Thrushes, 





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Z, Son^ Sparrow 

 J- 200 - - - - 





3. Bobolink 



P'-l\^s^jUli\l&m 



4*. Oltyc 'backed Thrush. 



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ti},ii,-;iHA[ff/- i -^j]i4mii 



5. Mcadowtarks, 





unwritten laws of universal taste. Such a song, for example, as I 

 heard day after day from my desk in the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, uttered by a song sparrow from its favorite perch, a telegraph 

 wire outside my open window (see notation 2). Many a bit of 

 melody of this nature may the listener secure and record. 



