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tional notes and calls are both varied and numer- 

 ous. His regular song is a series of trills descend- 

 ing the scale, and may be rendered as a trilled 

 trea, trea, trea. Another form of this is tree, 

 tree, trum, rea, rea. 



Last spring I was greatly puzzled by hearing 

 in the woods what seemed like the bleating of a 

 lamb ; and although I soon suspected its source, 

 it was some time before I saw the veery making 

 this peculiar sound. It resembles a bleat so nearly 

 that it can be fairly represented by the syllables 

 ba-ah-ah. Mr. Brewster says it is a common note 

 from the mountains of North Carolina to Maine 

 and Labrador. I have heard it modified into a 

 rapid run resembling titaree. As far as I have 

 observed, this bleating call is usually connected 

 with flight, or motion of some kind. 



The commonest calls of the veery when undis- 

 turbed are kree-ah and Jcree-up. His kree f -whee-a 

 is in a higher key and suggests alarm. One day 

 I went through the bushes where a family of 

 young were hiding. The mother sat on a branch 

 looking down whisking her tail in dismay. Whee- 

 ah ! she called, and then added in undertone what 

 seemed to be a warning, and sounded like be still, 

 be still ! 



Sitting on a stump in the raspberry patch, I 

 have drawn a number of veeries about me by imi- 

 tating their kree-ah, and one of the rarest forest 

 concerts I ever listened to began with this call. 



