APPENDIX. 



215 



J. E. HARTING. 



(In " Birds of Middlesex.") 



BLACKCAP. (Sylvia atricapilla.) 



Passage in song of. 

 8va. alt. 



I 



WILLOW WARBLER. (Sylvia trochilus.p 



J. V. Stewart, in "Birds of the N. E. coast of Donegal." 

 8va. alt. 



1 " Its song, if deserving of that name, consists of ten whistling notes, 

 which it runs through the gamut of B, thus : [see notation.] The latter 

 notes are very soft, and run into each other." Quoted in Harting, J. E. : 

 Birds of Middlesex, p. 53. 



Mr. Harting, speaking of the methods of reproducing bird-songs, says : 



" A flute or flageolet will give the proper sound, but the most perfect 

 expression will be obtained with a small whistle, two and a half inches 

 long, and having three perforations. ... By reducing the length of the 

 tube by a stop or plug, the whistle may, by experiment with the bird, be ad- 

 justed to the exact pitch, and the stop be then fixed. Harting, J. E. : Birds 

 of Middlesex, Introduction, p. ix. 



"Colonel Hawker, in his 'Instructions to Young Sportsmen' (llth ed. 

 p. 269), says : 'The only note which I ever heard the wild swan, in winter, 

 utter, is his well-known ' whoop.' But one summer evening I was amused 

 with watching and listening to a domesticated one, as he swam up and 

 down the water in the Regent's Park. He turned up a sort of melody, 

 made with two notes, C and the minor third, E flat, and kept working 

 his head as if delighted with his own performance. The melody, taken 

 down on the spot by a first-rate musician, Auguste Bertini, was as 

 follows : [See Notation.] ' 



