FAMILY FrlngilHdt 



and one i- -m-pri^-il \<> find )ii pn.m 



isinj* but exceedingly *liort I- nx.re 



seems to follow! There is an attempt at melod 

 a failure to realize it. The common form of the song 

 may be represented by dots, thus : 



; E. Thompson writes it, citnck-burr, /</// 

 -trill-(i-irill, which is a very fair representation <t the 

 providing on*- is told that the bird rapidly pro- 

 upward with clear whistled to: i fifth, 

 and tlien about a fourth, so the whole eompass covers 

 approximately a jump of nine tones, or just one tone 

 over an octave. This, however, would be the form of 

 but one song, whether it is called common or not. 



-burr pill~d-will-d-will etc. 



Somehow or other these particular tones remind one of 

 the violinist trying his violin, and one naturally wail 

 for the bird to begin the real song but he never does 

 Here is another form with a lesser jump the first inter- 

 val a third, and the second, a fourth which is certainly 

 more satisfactory to the ear: 



V/Vace. (T/)et>irdsingstwi'ce8vd) 



m 



J 7 



these notes might 

 be rendered at the 

 pidno ds d trill 

 .e.DdndE 



And here is again very nearly the same form dropped a 

 full tone: 



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