APPENDIX. 155 
WHITE-THROATED SPARROW. — Contin. 
we may go so far as to say with Mr. Tully that there is in 
bird music “clearly an adumbration of the simpler forms 
of rhythm.” 
See Index, Beckler (note). See also Index, Cuckoo; also Hermit 
Thrush, where the song is reported as suggesting the “opening of a 
grand overture.” 
Fox-colored Sparrow. (See p. 44.) 
Mr. Torrey finds a “thrush-like” quality in the song of 
the fox-sparrow; more, however, of the cardinal grosbeak. 
(A happy report of a song contest between a fox-sparrow 
and a song-sparrow is to be found in his “ Birds in the 
Bush,” pp. 219-220.) Mr. Burroughs speaks briefly but 
decidedly : — 
“Tt is a strong, richly modulated whistle, the finest sparrow note I 
have ever heard.” — Burroughs, J. : Wake-robin, p. 163. 
“During their stay in the United States these birds keep in small 
distinctive flocks, never mingling, though often in the same places, with 
other species. They are found in the edge of thickets and in moist woods. 
They are usually silent, and only occasionally utter a call-note, low and 
soft. In the spring the male becomes quite musical, and is one of our 
sweetest and most remarkable singers. His voice is loud, clear, and 
melodious ; his notes full, rich, and varied ; and his song is unequalled by 
any of this family that I have ever heard.”— Baird, Brewer, and 
Ridgway : North Am. Birds. Land-Birds, vol. ii. p. 52. 
Chewink. (See p. 45.) 
Mr. Torrey, too, finds the chewink “ taking liberties with 
his score”: “ He carries the matter so far that sometimes 
it seems almost as if he suspected the proximity of some 
self-conceited ornithologist, and were determined, if pos- 
sible, to make a fool of him” (Jn his Birds in the Bush, 
p. 39). 
