142 WOOD NOTES WILD. 
UNIVERSAL EFFect oF Music. — Contin. 
How Aa CHIPMUNK FOLLOWED A FIDDLE. 
“One day last week a traveller on the Newmanville road so charmed a 
chipmunk with music produced from a violin that the little rodent became 
very tame and followed him for about a mile. When the music ceased it 
resumed its wild nature and scampered back home.” —~ From the Tionesta 
Commonwealth. 
See Animal Love of Music. (Harp. Mag., vol. xv., 1857, pp. 83- 
.85.) — Effect of Music on Lower Animals. (All the Year,N. 8. vol. xxx., 
Dec., 1882, p. 538.) — Fish, E. E.: Birds’ Tastes for Color and Music. 
(Pop. Sci. Mo., vol. xxv., 1884, pp. 715-716.) — Hawkins, Sir John: Hist. 
of Music, vol. ii. bk. 19, chap. 178, p. 835. — Kircher, A.: Musurgia, 
lib. ix.— Music of the Wild. (Litt. Liv. Age, vol. xxi., 1849, pp. 475~ 
476.) —Nat. Hist. of Birds (Harper & Bros., 1840), pp. 241-246.— 
Phenomena of Music. (£clec. Mag., n. 8. vol. ix., 1869, pp. 368-372.) — 
Pontécoulant, Marquis de: Les Phénoménes de la Musique. (Lib. Inter- 
nationale, Paris, 1868.) —Schele de Vere, M. R. B.: Music in Nature. 
(Putnam’s Mag., x. 8. vol. vi., 1870, pp. 173-182.) — Stearns, R. C.: In- 
stances of the Effects of musical Sounds of Animals, (Amer. Naturalist, 
vol. xxiv., 1890, pp. 22, 123, 236.) 
Effect of Music On Snakes. See Romanes, G. J.: Animal Intelli- 
gence, chap. ix. p. 265. Own SripErs, same work, chap. vi. pp. 205-207. 
Esthetic sense denied to animals. See Viardot, L., in Pop. Sci. Mo., 
vol. iv., 1873, pp. 729-735. (Trans. from Gazette des Beaux Arts.) 
Chickadee. (See p. 8.) 
Flagg speaks of “two very plaintive notes” of the 
chickadee, which he writes as follows: — 
mw i a ity 
“They have a great variety of simple or quaint notes, all of which seem 
to be expressive of perpetual happiness, for many of them are constantly 
repeated throughout the year, and none are restricted to one season. 
Besides their well-known chant, ‘ chick-a-dee-dee-dee-dee,’ which has given 
them their name,! they have an exquisite whistle of two notes (nearly 
represented by high G and F, upon the piano), which is very sweet and 
1 The Chippewa Indians name the black-cap Kitch-i-kitch-i-gé-ne-shi. 
