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WOOD NOTES WILD. 



Song, Organs of, 140. 



Song-birds. (See also Bird-song. 

 Bird -songs. Birds. Borrowing 

 from birds. Music. Night-songs. 

 Notations. Songs.) Australian 

 singers, 209; Barrington, D. On 

 notation of music of, 121 ; Table of 

 comparative merit of British, 180 ; 

 New South Wales, 209; Smee, A. 

 Difficulty of recording notes of, 223 ; 

 Soc. for Introd. of Useful Singing- 

 birds into Oregon, 182; Song of 

 birds is innate, 175 ; Thompson, M. 

 Duty of protecting, 136. 



Song guild, Emblem of the, 129. 



Song-sparrow. See Sparrow (melo- 

 spiza melodia). 



Song-thrush. See Thrush (turdus 

 mustelinus). 



Songs (See also Bird-song. Bird- 

 songs. Inanimate music. Melo- 

 dies. Music in nature. Night- 

 songs. Notations. Song-birds), 



Songs, Variations in. See Bird-song. 



Sparrow, Chipping (spizella socialis). 

 Coues, Dr. E., 40; Notation, 40. 



Sparrow, Field (spizella ptisilla), 26, 

 35; Coues, Dr. E., 35; Extemporiz- 

 ing, 148; Minot, H. D., 35; Nota- 

 tion, 36; Torrey, B., 149; Wilson, 

 Dr. A., 35. 



Sparrow, Fox -colored (passerella 

 iliaca), 155; Baird, Brewer, and 

 Ridgway, 155; Burroughs, J., 155; 

 Notation, 44; Torrey, B., 155. 



Sparrow, Gambel's white - crowned. 

 Notation, 153. 



Sparrow, Golden-crowned. Notation, 

 153. 



Sparrow, Hedge, 180. 



Sparrow, Reed, 180. 



Sparrow, Song (melospiza melodia). 

 Bicknell, E. P., 147; Miller, O. T., 

 169; Minot, H. D., 146; Nelson, 

 H. L., 146; Notations, 23, By W. 

 Flagg and the author, 125 ; Nuttall, 

 T., 147; Stearns, A. W., 147; Tor- 

 rey, B., 146 ; Trill of, 23. 



Sparrow, White-throated (zonotrichia 



albicollis). Baird, Brewer, and Ridg- 

 way, 149 ; Keeler, C. A., 153 ; Leach, 

 M. L., 151; Minot, H. D., 150; 

 Notations, 42, 150, 151, 152 ; Rhythm, 

 154; Song, 8; Song interpreted as 

 prayer to Saint Theresa, 150 ; Song 

 shortens as the season advances, 

 43 ; Variation in song of, 150. 



Spectator, The (magazine), 176. 



Speech, Music in, 129. 



Spencer, H., 140, 238. 



Spinning girls' song compared with 

 robin's song, 20. 



Spizella pusilla. See Sparrow. 



Spizella socialis. See Sparrow. 



Starling, 133. 



Stearns, R. C., 142, 238. 



Stearns, W. A., vi, 238; Cat-bird, 159; 

 Red-eyed vireo, 190; Song-sparrow, 

 147 ; Wood-pewee, 144. 



Stein, F., 239. 



Sterne, C., 128, 239. 



Stewart, J. V. Willow-warbler (nota- 

 tion quoted by J. E. Harting), 215. 



Stones, Musical* 129. 



Storer, D. H., and Peabody, W. B. 0., 

 239. 



Stuhr, ( ) (bird-dealer), Portland, 

 184. 



Sturnella magna. See Lark. 



Sturt, Capt. C., 151, 239. 



Sully, J., 239, 242; Intervals in bird- 

 song, 132; Rhythm in bird -song, 

 131 ; Sexual selection improves bird- 

 song, 138; Structure of melody, 132; 

 Tonality in bird-song, 132. 



Swan. Arnaud, Abbe. Voice of, 216 ; 

 Bertini, A. Notation, 216 ; Hawker, 

 Col., 215. 



Swiss cross, The (magazine), 239. 



Sylvicolidce. See American warblers. 



TABLE of comparative merit of British 



singing-birds. 180. 

 Tanager. Difference between song of 



old and young, 26; Song of robin 



and, Nelson, H. L., 185, Samuels, 



E. A., 185. 



