APPENDIX. 117 
Music in Nature. (See p. 2.) 
With this same article for his text, the author writes 
again at length: “Do the birds ‘never sustain notes’? 
Listen to the loon, our largest bird, calling to her young 
in time of peril with a loud, long tone so startlingly like 
the human voice : — 
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Here is a ‘fourth and a true third.’ Descend, now, and 
listen to one of the smallest of our singing-birds, the 
titmouse : — 
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The chickadees sustain these notes longer than we do the 
half and quarter notes in Dundee or Old Hundred. Here 
is a ‘true third’ and a true second; and they are sung 
with a purity of tone not to be equalled this side of 
heaven. The little black-throated green warbler sings 
with marked distinction and moderation, — 
Here is the true major third, and the strain is identical in 
melody with ‘Larboard Watch Ahoy’: — 
