WOOD NOTES WILD. 15 



The effect was that of a call, but there was no answer. 

 Soon he called again louder, with more rapid notes, giving 

 another interval : 



C C C 



Lit, lit, lit, lit, lit, leu, leu, leu. 



The next morning he again appeared on the same twig, 

 and called, " Lit, lit, lit," to which a bluebird promptly 

 responded, 



Chee - oo - wy, chee - oo - wy. 



and a nuthatch rattled away merrily at them both, 



i 



Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, 



t4-^-^-H ? =c=E=j=B == r = r = l 



wait, wait, wait. Ick - y, ick - y, ick - y. 



Some two weeks passed before the morning songs proper 

 began, my first record being made May 5. On that morn- 

 ing before light, I was out, and within a few feet of a 

 robin that struck up his song in a small pear-tree, not 

 more than ten feet from the ground. On this occasion I 

 settled one point ; namely, that the robin frequently sings 

 other notes than those heard. He has a habit of, as it 

 were, closing his mouth between strains, and making 

 muffled, indistinct tones an imperfect echo, or better, 



