Impressions of the Voices of Tropical Birds 3 



pause; then an exceedingly high trill, swelling and dying. These singers 

 were common at about five thousand feet, and their choral chanting was 

 an experience to be long remembered. Myadestes ohscurus, of southern 

 Mexico, has a song more spontaneous and overflowing than the other tropical 

 species; I thought of a Bobolink when I first heard it. The song began high in 

 the scale, and very loud; then through the rich progression of its bubbling 



JAMAICAN SOLITAIRE (Myadestes soUtarius) 



