WILD SCENES AND SONG-BIRDS. 



a strain composed of only two or three melancholy tones, he 

 begins in an under tone, and swelling it gradually by the 

 most superb crescendo, to the highest point of strength, he 

 ends it by a dying cadence ; or it consists of a rapid success- 

 ion of more brilliant sounds, terminated, like many other 

 strains of his song, by some detached note. Twenty-four 

 different strains or couplets may be reckoned in the song of 

 a fine Nightingale, without including its delicate little varia- 

 tions, for among these, as among other musicians, there are 

 some great performers and many middling ones. This song 

 is so articulate, so speaking, that it may be very well written. 

 The following is a trial which I have made on that of a Night- 

 ingale in my neighborhood, which passes for a very capital 

 singer : 



" Tiofl, tiou, tiou, tiou. 

 Spe, tiou, squa. 



Tio, ti6, tio, ti6, ti6, ti6, ti6, ti6. 

 Coutio, coutio, coutio, coutio. 

 Squo, squo, squo, squ6. 

 Tzu, tzu, tzu, tzu, tzu, tzu, tzu, tzu, tzu, tzi. 

 Corro, tiou, squa, pipiqui. 

 Zozozozozozozozozozozozo, zirrhading ! 

 Tsissisi, tsissisisisisisisisis. 

 Dzorre, dzorre, dzorre, dzorre, hi. 

 Tzatu, tzatu, tzatu, tzatu, tzatu, tzatu, tzatu, dzi. 

 Dlo, dlo, dlo, dlo, dlo, dlo, dlo, dlo, dlo. 

 Quio, tr rrrrrrrr itz. 



Lu, lu, lu, lu, ly, ly, ly, ly, lie, lie, HA, lid * 

 Quio, didl li lulylie. 

 Hagurr, gurr guipio. 



Coui, coui, coui, coui, qui, qui, qui, qui, gui, gui, gui, gui.f 

 Goll, goll, goll, goll, quia hadadoi. 

 Couiqui, horr, ha diadia dill si ! 



* I possess a nightingale \vhich repeats these brawling, melancholy 

 notes, often thirty or even fifty times. Many pronounce qu, quy, qui, 

 and others, qu quy gui. 



t These syllables are pronounced in a sharper, clearer manner than the 

 preceding lu, lu, &c. AUTHOE. 



