WOOD NOTES WILD. 



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PI - leu, pi - le - ah. 



Then the rapturous song begins, and a gradual cres- 

 cendo continues to the end. A few of the first notes of 

 the song proper are, 



His tonic is F major or D minor, and he holds to it, his 

 marvellous variations being restricted to the compass of 

 an octave, and the most of his long song to the interval 

 of a sixth. A long song and a strong song it is, but 

 though the performer foregoes the rests common among 

 other singers, like the jeweller with his blow-pipe, he 

 never gets out of breath. We must wait for some in- 

 terpreter with the sound-catching skill of a Blind Tom 

 and the phonograph combined, before we may hope to 

 fasten the kinks and twists of this live music-box. 



Perhaps we have no more interesting, more charming, 

 summer guest. When Nature clothes the fields with 

 grass and flowers, he throws aside his common brown 

 wear for new plumage, gay as it is unique. This striking 

 change is a new birth ; he neither looks, acts, sings, nor 

 flies as he did before, nor could you guess him out. In 



