118 WOOD NOTES WILD. 



Music IN NATURE. Contin. 



The wood-pewee sings long and well-sustained tones : 



p 



r i ' . r i i. r 



The song of the meadow lark is very choice in point of 

 melody, often beginning with 



J 



and soon adding 



fA b r J 



n Lf J LT II 



and, further on, 



mm 



c C. 



Nor is this all the beautiful melody of the meadow lark. 



" A few mornings since I heard a chewink singing the 

 first strain of Kock of Ages,' cutting it a little short 

 with a trill: 



I have remembered for forty years the song of an oriole, 

 illustrating the old form of the minor scale, the seventh 

 sharp ascending, natural descending : 





