156 WOOD NOTES WILD. 
CHEWINK. — Contin. 
See Index, Extemporizing. See also Knapp, J. L.: Eng. Song 
Thrush, in his Journal of a Naturalist (London, 1838), p. 270. 
Mr. Flagg seems not to find that the chewink extem- 
porizes. “His song,” he says, “consists of two long notes, 
the first about a third above the second, and the last part 
made up of several rapidly uttered liquid notes, about one 
tone below the first note :” — 
In his A Year with the Birds, p. 96. 
Mr. Flagg and our author are far apart on the more 
common song of the chewink. 
Yellow Warbler. (See p. 47.) 
Mr. Nelson’s description of this song could: not follow 
closer the musical notation in the present volume had it 
been written with the music before his eyes: “ Five or six 
pipes, ending abruptly in a sharp quaver, the whole uttered 
with great rapidity.” 
Yellow Warbler and Goldfinch. 
Between the vocal powers of this bird and the goldfinch, 
(Chrysomitris tristis), indiscriminately classed with him 
as one of the “ yellow-birds,” there is a noteworthy differ- 
ence. The goldfinch is a rival of his famous relative, the 
canary :— 
“No one of our birds has a sweeter voice than the goldfinch, and its 
plaintive che-wé, che-wéah as it balances on an aster-head, or rises and falls 
