WOOD NOTES WILD. 83 
Pl- leu, pl - le - ah, 
Then the rapturous song begins, and a gradual cres- 
cendo continues to the end. A few of the first notes of 
the song proper are, — 
kr v 
NTe 
ro 
van oy 
Ra 
eo 
His tonic is F major or D minor, and he holds to it, his 
marvellous variations being restricted to the compass of 
an octave, and the most of his long song to the interval 
of a sixth. A long song and a strong song it is, but 
though the performer foregoes the rests common among 
other singers, like the jeweller with his blow-pipe, he 
never gets out of breath. We must wait for some in- 
terpreter with the sound-catching skill of a Blind Tom 
and the phonograph combined, before we may hope to 
fasten the kinks and twists of this live music-box. 
Perhaps we have no more interesting, more charming, 
summer guest. When Nature clothes the fields with 
grass and flowers, he throws aside his common brown 
wear for new plumage, gay as it is unique. This striking 
change is a new birth; he neither looks, acts, sings, nor 
flies as he did before, nor could you guess him out. In 
