288 Om ^'ATIVE SONGSTERS. 



whicli its German name is derived, is, he says, 

 mechanical and involuntary. 



The following songs or melodies sung by tlie 

 chaffinch, are those wliich are chiefly prized in 

 Saxony and Hesse. Some of them are heard 

 in the woods, but they are chiefly produced by 

 educating the voice of the bird. 



1. The double Trill of the Hartz, wliich Bcch- 

 stein says, an amateur cannot hear without 

 being in a perfect ecstasy. 2. The Eider's Song. 

 8. The Wine Song, wdiich has also several sub- 

 di\asions. 4. The Bridegroom's Song. 5. The 

 double Trill, which Bechstein says can only be 

 lieard in the house, and is so deep and powerful 

 that it can scarcely be conceived liow the larynx 

 of so small a bird can produce sucli sounds. 



6. The Good Year Song, with two subdivisions. 



7. The Quakin Song, which was formerly much 

 admired, but which seems now to be almost extinct 

 in Germany, as our author considered that he 

 possessed at that time the only bird which could 

 perform it. 8. The Pithia, or Trewithia, which 

 he says is a very uncommon and agreeable song, 

 never heard but in the depths of the Thuringian 

 mountains. 



