110 FAMILIAR FEATURES OF THE ROADSIDE. 



which arches the Pemigewasset Valley in New 

 Hampshire, we may be sure he will very soon be 

 performing the same antics four hundred miles away 

 among the hills of Pennsylvania. 



I never see or hear the little fellow without think- 

 ing of that line in the old familiar hymn which runs : 

 Or if on joyful wing cleaving the skies. 



It is almost impossible to pass along the highway 

 at about seven o'clock in the evening of a fine mid- 

 summer's day without seeing or hearing the yellow- 

 bird as he flits chirping along overhead. 



But I must also introduce another rendering of 

 tlie yellowbird's song, as 

 it is given by Mr. Simeon 



8v3l. 



Pease Cheney. Here it K'j) 1; !• T f 



Mr. Cheney also says that a very similar descrip- 

 tion of this bird's song he had seen from the pen of 

 Mr. Burroughs. What I wish particularly to empha- 

 size in this matter of bird singing is the fact that it 

 is perfectly possible by means of musical signs to 

 identify the bird's song beyond a shadow of doubt, f 



* It is from one of a number of perfectly delightful articles on 

 bird music, by Mr. Simeon Pease Cheney. I advise every one 

 who loves birds to read them. See the Century Magazine for 

 June, 1889. 



f My own experience eight years ago will prove this. Upon 



