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bird's song can be adequately represented without musi- 

 cal notation. Here it is * : 



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NJ VJ ^ NJ Xl XJ 



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The tone of voice is a bit unique; it is dominated by no 

 overtone, yet it is not a clear whistle; it sounds, in fact, 

 as if the bird threw it out from his cheeks rather than 

 his lungs. I suppose most musicians would call it a 

 "mouthy" tone notwithstanding its fortissimo charac- 

 ter ! The remarkable thing about it is its relation with 

 the size of the bird. It is the case of a David with the 

 voice of a Goliath ! The woods fairly ring with the 

 sound, and the voices of the other birds, for the time, 

 are completely lost. 



Maryland This bird is certainly one of the com 



monest members of the Warbler Family. 

 Its voice is heard wherever there is a bit 

 brachidactyln of running water that finds its way through 

 L. 5.30 inches an impassable thicket. A sight of the 

 May loth ^ r( j j s therefore less common than the 



sound of his voice. He is as beautifully marked 

 as any other member of his tribe, and in the best of 

 Spanish taste. He affects a harmony in black and 

 yellow, with the black appropriately encircling his face ! 

 A black band crosses the forehead and covers the cheeks 

 and ear coverts; it is bordered above and backward by 



* I do not consider the musical interval of any consequence ; 

 some birds seem to sing a questionable third, others a fourth, and 

 still others a fifth. The shift back and forth is more an extreme 

 inflection of the voice than anything else, and it is very difficult to 

 locate the terminating tones. 



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