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in (7), a phrase which displays considerable art. The first two triplets — 
were accented on the first note, but in the third triplet the accent was 
omitted, the first two notes of the triplet were slightly hurried, and a 
trace of the lost accent was heard on the A flat. The earliest song heard 
L E Ww gi, O | 
Ј fifi Fira fifi fita fifi А-К orr ti pia Po) 
Жс = аы 2н еу аа. ggu-—-— eS се ыыы 
in 1917, on 27th March, was (8), also in perfect time—a bright, спее : 
song, sung at the rate of eight semiquavers a second. The sone yu 
unusually early, as the hedge-warbler generally starts singing in Weling _ 
about July, the last month of winter, singing on till the moult in the hot 
weeks of January. tae 
PSYCHOLOGY OF BIRD-SONG. M 
ssuming bird-song to be a secondary sexual character, many from | 
can be brought forward in support of the assumption. Regardet = 
another point of view, however, bird-song may be seen as à characte 
quite apart from sex, but upon which on occasion sex seizes for its ° 
end ; and many equally cogent facts can be brought forward in SUPE.) 
of this view. Many emotional elements mingle at the source of e E. 
it bird-song or human song, the sex-emotion being but one. ong я 
flowering of the emotions, as speech is a flowering of the thought. 4 
Mudie (MF, vol. 1, p. 273 et seq.) notes “ the connection wer pit 
he mo ; 
