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CHEWINK. Contin. 



See Index, Extemporizing. See also Knapp, J. L.: Eng. Song 

 Thrush, in his Journal of a Naturalist (London, 1838), p. 270. 



Mr. Flagg seems not to find that the chewink extem- 

 porizes. " His song," he says, " consists of two long notes, 

 the first about a third above the second, and the last part 

 made up of several rapidly uttered liquid notes, about one 

 tone below the first note : " 



In his A Year with the Birds, p. 96. 



Mr. Flagg and our author are far apart on the more 

 common song of the chewink. 



Yellow Warbler. (See p. 47.) 



Mr. Nelson's description of this song could not follow 

 closer the musical notation in the present volume had it 

 been written with the music before his eyes : " Five or six 

 pipes, ending abruptly in a sharp quaver, the whole uttered 

 with great rapidity." 



Yellow Warbler and Goldfinch. 



Between the vocal powers of this bird and the goldfinch, 

 (Chrysomitris tristis), indiscriminately classed with him 

 as one of the " yellow-birds," there is a noteworthy differ- 

 ence. The goldfinch is a rival of his famous relative, the 

 canary : 



" No one of our birds has a sweeter voice than the goldfinch, and its 

 plaintive che-we', che-weah as it balances on an aster-head, or rises and falls 



