118 WOOD NOTES WILD. 
Music In NATuRE. — Contin. 
The wood-pewee sings long and well-sustained tones : — 
pee ace 
fol ™~ 
pepe er 
ea fF = fF 
The song of the meadow lark is very choice in point of 
melody, often beginning with — 
P: a ee 
FS eee 
and soon adding — 
Nor is this all the beautiful melody of the meadow lark. 
“A few mornings since I heard a chewink singing the 
first strain of ‘Rock of Ages,’ cutting it a little short 
with a trill: — 
I have remembered for forty years the song of an oriole, 
illustrating the old form of the minor scale, — the seventh 
sharp ascending, natural descending : — 
p pet te. 
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