WILD LIFE OF ORCHARD AND FIELD 



attention will show almost any of our songsters 

 to vary their melodies from time to time, but 

 none have greater individuality than our subject. 

 In that interesting record of bird songs by the 

 musician Cheney, entitled Wood Notes Wild, the 

 author gives the notation of some twenty different 

 melodies by a single performer; and offers the 

 following distinct songs which he says he heard 

 from a single song-sparrow within twenty minutes : 



"Last season," writes John Burroughs, "the 

 whole summer through, one sang about my 

 grounds like this: ' Sicee-e-t, sivee-e-t, siceet, bitter.' 

 Day after day, from May to September, I heard 



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