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be materially enhanced. This imperfect part of the song is also 

 in more regular time than I have heard save in the short, loud 

 melodies, which are strikingly regular, and of which I will speak 

 further on. 



Regarding this soft song, I am not yet sure that the bird has more 

 than one ; but I suppose that he has, since his repertory of short, 

 ringing melodies is so large. These latter are easily studied, 

 because they are audible at such a distance as to enable one to 

 avoid approaching so near as to alarm the singer. It is not so 

 with the soft song, and to hear it well one must run the risk of 



