'FAMILY Mniotntidm. 



crests of the All<^li;mirs to Virginia. Scott says he 

 found the birds breeding at Mountain Lake, Giles Co., 

 Virginia (the altitude of \vhk-h is over four thousand 

 feet), in the summer of 1889. 



The song of the Magnolia is loud, clear, slightly like 

 that of the Yellow Warbler so far as tone is concerned, 

 MTU I unique in the arrangement of the (generally) seven 

 notes. The first four have a rising inflection, or an in- 

 definite upward progression to the extent of a fourth in- 

 terval, and among the next three the middle one is the 

 highest; the song begins loud and ends with a diminu- 

 endo, thus: 



dim 



That is the form which I know best, and here it is 

 according to my notation: 



Once in a while a very indistinct high note is added 

 to this form. Here is another common form which I 

 think fits Rev. J. H. Langille's syllables exceedingly 

 well, though possibly it is not exactly the song he 

 heard: 



Am. 



Here is also another which fits one of Mr. S. E. White's 

 series of syllables (see the Auk) perfectly: 



_ dim 



There are probably five or ix forms of the song, but 



I have none other than the three foregoing ones. It 



is evident from these and the testimony of several writ- 



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