BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER. 



sings the two next to the last are burred, the others are 

 clear. Mr. John Burroughs writes the song by a series 



of lines thus: V which form, so far as it 



will answer the purpose of identification, can not be im- 

 proved upon. But I shall always hold the opinion that 

 a representation of sound, not to speak of song wild or 

 cultivated, by other than scientific music signs, is an ex- 

 tremely dubious method of conveying' ideas. For that 

 reason, I have taken particular pains throughout this 

 book to show the parallels of haphazard symbols and 

 exact musical notations. The foregoing signs, there- 

 fore are properly interpreted this way: 



j s Twice 8vd 



V/vjce. 



Trees, trees murm'ring trees 

 /, 



I have added the popular idea about the sentiment of a 

 song; that will certainly help to emphasize the rhythm. 

 If you whistle this song between the teeth, and 6tm*the 

 two notes next to the last by humming and whistling 

 simultaneously, you will obtain a very tolerable idea of 

 the Black-throated Green's song. It is surely un- 

 necessary to add that the song must be whistled in the 

 high register where it belongs in accordance with the 

 instruction on my record, or one will not get a proper 

 impression of it. 



The song of this Warbler is really not without senti- 

 ment if one is caught in the proper mood, as the follow- 

 ing form, obtained on one of the foot-hills of the 

 Franconia Mountains, and the very common instance 

 connected with it will testify. The day was a brilliant 

 one of early June; the cumulus clouds lay piled away 

 up in the north over the blue and jagged horizon line 

 formed by Lafayette, the Notch, and Cannon Mountain; 

 below, in the broad sunlit valley, the beautiful Pemige- 



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