72 WOOD NOTES WILD. 
times vents his high spirits in ingenious variations indic- 
ative of superior possibilities. Years ago I heard, from 
a large, tall elm standing in an open field, a strain the 
beauty of which so struck me that it is often wafted 
through my mind to this day. It was the oriole’s voice, 
but could it be his song ?— 
if). 2 
rez m3 
ya YZ 
: : 
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= i Z t x = 
Ep i p—t : 
It proved to be, and it became with me a favorite argu- 
ment for the old form of the minor scale—the seventh 
sharp ascending, natural descending. 
But a still greater deviation from the usual vocal de- 
livery of orioles was noticed in Dorset, Vermont, on the 
22d of May, 1884, the new song continuing through the 
season. A remarkable feature of the performance was 
the distinct utterance of words as plainly formed as the 
whippoorwill’s name when he “tells” it “to all the hills.” 
p+ = = f > 
pe et pe 
oo Cur - ly, cur - ly, Hey! Chick -er- way, chick - er - way, 
Ht. 
SS SS = b p——4 
chew, eur - ly, cur - ly, cur - ly, 
ieee f= 
7 ¥ a Z % 
kah, kue. Hey! Chick-er - way, chick - er -way, chew. 
While listening to this song I could not help thinking 
that the bird had been trained. He invariably attacked 
the forte “Hey!” in the climax, as if he had a full 
