WOOD NOTES WILD. 15 
The effect was that of a call, but there was no answer. 
Soon he called again louder, with more rapid notes, giving 
another interval : — 
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Lit, lit, lit, lit, lit, leu, leu, leu. 
The next morning he again appeared on the same twig, 
and called, “ Lit, lit, lit,’ to which a bluebird promptly 
responded, —- 
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Chee - 00 - wy, chee - 00 - wy. 
and a nuthatch rattled away merrily at them both, — 
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Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, 
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wait, wait, wait. Ick - y, ick - y, ick - y. 
Some two weeks passed before the morning songs proper 
began, my first record being made May 5. On that morn- 
ing before light, I was out, and within a few feet of a 
robin that struck up his song in a small pear-tree, not 
more than ten feet from the ground. On this occasion I 
settled one point; namely, that the robin frequently sings 
other notes than those heard. He has a habit of, as it 
were, closing his mouth between strains, and making 
muffled, indistinct tones — an imperfect echo, or better, 
