FAMILY Mnlotlltldte. 



Presto. 



Nor must we forget my first record which >li<ws a final 

 drop of fully a fifth! How to find a parallel between 

 any of these types and the syllables given by various au- 

 thors, I confess is a difficult problem; but I am disjxmcii 

 to consider that one of those given by Mr. I,vii'-.I 

 adaptable; for instance, sweet, sweet, sweet, *///, .s/w/- 

 er, Kweet-er. if tho syllablos of the last two words aiv dis- 

 tinctly separated , will lit song No. 1. I get no further 

 encouragement; even the notations of Mr. Cheney on 

 page 47 of Wood Notes Wild do not correspond with 

 anything I have heard from the bird, so the evidence 

 goes to show that the little singer is versatile. It is 

 a simple matter to prove that fact. Mr. Lynes Jones 

 gives three forms of the song different from mine, and 

 Mr. Cheney three more; to these must be added all but 

 one of the records given here; a total of thirteen! The 

 songs which end with the high note are many; here 

 is one: 



sto. 



and here is another, showing how the type remains the 

 same though the bird rings a change in the positions of 

 the last few notes: 



These two records were taken in Cambridge and the 

 Arnold Arboretum between May 14 and 21, 1901, afte* 

 I had thought I had gauged all the possibilities of varia- 

 tion in the song of this species! Eventually I have had 

 to add still another type to my collection, which strangely 

 reverses the order of the song, thus: 



