FAMILY Frlnglllldte. 



The next is also from the same place, and shows that the 

 bird occasionally stops short of the final so-called trill: 







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I should say at once in reference to the term trill, that 

 in my estimation the Chewink rapidly repeats one 

 tone and does not actually trill. Mr. Cheney evidently 

 thought otherwise, for all his records of this bird's 

 music show two alternating tones for the final note; but 

 I think a close study of the song will convince the lis- 

 tener that this is unquestionably composed of a single 

 tone rapidly reiterated. There are undoubtedly many 

 variations of the Chewink's song, and it is not impossi- 

 ble that some birds may trill, just as others may adopt 

 for a time some unusual form, in proof of which Mr. 

 Cheney remarks: " This bird, like many others, can ex- 

 temporize finely when the spirit moves him. For several 

 successive days, one season, a Chewink gave me very 

 interesting exhibitions of the kind. He fairly revelled 

 in the new song, repeating it times without number. 

 Whether he stole it from the first strain of Rock of 

 Ages or it was stolen from him or some of his family, 

 is a question yet to be decided. The following is an 

 exact copy of his variation " : 



fl qatstion the keyths Chevtink must 

 have sung this highfr than twice 8va~) 



The Chewink is distinctively a ground bird, and con- 

 sequently one whose song will be heard issuing from the 

 shrubbery more frequently than from the topmost twig 

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