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Chickadee Phe-he. 



Wood Pewee Ppx-a-wec. 



White-throated Sparrow .... Poor -Sam -Pcnbody, Pcahudy, Pcdhody. 



Meadowlark SpHng-is-here. 



Field Sparrow Here, here, here, here, aweel, xweel, xweel, sweet. 



Junco Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet. 



Ruby-crowned Kinglet See-see-see, justlookatme, jusllookatme, jusl- 



lookalme, see-see-see. 

 Veery Turce. aree, aree, aree, arce. 



CHICKADEE : 



WOOD PEffEE I 



A 



OOOOOOOOOOO'^'^O 



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MEADCfW LARK : 



TOITB-THROATED SPARP07? . . . . j 



JUNCO 5 



FIELD SPARrOTT t 



RU3Y-CR0W1TED KINGLET : 



VEERY « 



BIRDS' SONGS SVM JiOLIZi.I^ 



As in many other subjects, when one has mastered one song completely, 

 the whole subject becomes much more lucid. If anyone interested will attempt 

 to symbolize some common song with which he is familiar, the foolish little 

 diagrams here shown will take on new meaning, and he will soon be ixiking 

 down unfamiliar songs in a strange shorthand script that will cause him to 

 remember the songs. 



A number of birds ha\'e songs which have the exact quality of a high- 

 pitched, human v/histle and can be closely imitated by anyone willing to 

 practice. .So accurately can these songs be imitated that it will often deceive 

 the birds themselves, and they will approach very closely in their search for 

 the other bird. Particularly is this true of Chickadees, Wood Pewees, Field 

 Sparrows, WTiite-throats, and Baltimore Orioles. Upon several occasions the 

 writer has had birds of several species ajjproach within arm's length, and he 



