AMERICAN GOLDFINCH. 



Confaoco 



Pencti ko-ree. 



the pitch and the key are of no particular value, but the 

 relative positions of the notes accurately represent the 

 fluctuations of the tones of voice. A second record 

 which follows (the two fit together nicely) does not show 

 anything essentially different in principle. 



Mxtento > 



Con/uoco 



"fipr-chif-0-ree. Per-cbic-ort*. 



$* \ I J | J j ij r 



There are the same rapid upward and downward chirps, 

 and finally the little musical addendum the per-chic-o- 

 ree; this last he indulges in with exceptional gusto while 

 he is on the wing. His habit is (particularly in the late 

 afternoon) to chase about at no great height in the blue 

 summer sky for nothing in particular but the pleasure of 

 the thing, and tell all the world that he is feeling re- 

 markably "chipper"; as he goes he sings with a thin 

 wiry voice: 



ree. 



and he does so rhythmically with his undulating flight, 

 always breaking out with the song just at the crest of the 

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