MEADOWLARK. 



266 of his Handbook of Birds, which song, he says, 

 is common about Englewood, N. J. a place where both 

 the Meadowlark and the Wood Thrush sing as I have 

 never heard them sing in the vicinity of Boston. I have 

 given the minor response to this melody, but in the key 

 of D flat, where it seems to me most Meadowlarks pitch 

 their songs. 



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The addition of the slurs enables one to whistle the air 

 in exactly the Meadowlark's manner, and the added ac- 

 companiment shows the true value of the melody. I 

 heard in Nantucket in the summer of 1903 a bird which 

 sang with charming accuracy the following first two 

 bars from Alfredo's song in La Traviata: 



Jndante. 



(This /3 phrased ds theMeddowbrk sary 



But this was sung in the same pathetic way in which 

 Violetta sings it a little later in the same act, when she 

 finds she must give up Alfredo. There is an unmistak- 

 able pathos in the bird's song; one fellow at Wellesley 

 Hills sang two bars of Aida's " Numi pieta" for me, 

 note for note thus * : 



* See Verdi's Opera of Aida, Act 1 

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