FAMILY Turdidsc. 



Josien 



Apparently this is the form recorded by Mr. Cheney, 



thus* : 



This record from Sfr Cheneys Wood Notes Wild 

 simply AfiotYS <t different method of notet/'on* 



But the general principle remains the same; the swing- 

 ing slurs are there, and so is the sustained, deliberate 

 high tone, and the pianissimo introduction. I have also 

 heard another variation involving a complete change in 

 the relationship of the tones; in this instance the Veery 

 dropped the chromatic scale and adopted in its stead dis- 

 tinct intervals: 



The tones were bell-like and resonant, in fact, the singer 

 was the best of his kind I have ever heard. There is a 

 predominant overtone to all of the Veery's notes, he 

 never whistles a perfectly clear tone unless it is that of 

 his call-note, the rather softly rendered whieu, but even 

 this is broadly slurred, just exactly as any one might 

 whistle it in token of surprise; so it does not in the re- 

 motest way resemble a pure, clear tone such as that 

 sung by the Chickadee. Moreover the bird has another 



* Vide Wood Note* Wild, page 66. 

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