APPENDIX. 173 
NOTATIONS FROM THE PHONOGRAPH. — Contin. 
under my direction, to write it out, and in this way to demon- 
strate that it could be done. 
“Since these preliminary experiments, I have collected a 
large quantity of aboriginal music in the same way, and other 
musical specialists have set it to our scales, but I shall always 
recall with gratitude the help which he afforded me in my 
first experimentation. He wrote out for me three songs which 
were published in my ‘Contribution to Passamaquoddy Folk 
Lore.’ Although I am now of the opinion that the minute 
variations in the aboriginal intervals and those of Aryan 
music cannot be more than approximately represented in our 
method of writing music, I think that the work which he did 
for me was of very great importance.” — Fewkes, Dr. J. W., in 
a letter to the editor dated March 21, 1891. 
Variations in Bird-Song. 
“The song, for example, of a thrush near London, or in any of the 
home counties, has little resemblance except in specific character to that 
of the same bird in Devonshire or near Exeter. The same notes, I sup- 
pose, will all of them be detected ; but they are arranged for the most part 
into a different tune, and are not sung in the same way. They are given 
with different values, and the singing is pitched in a different key. One 
great distinction between the two cases is the number of guttural notes 
of which the song of a Devonshire thrush is often made up, but which 
near London are heard only at the end of a bar, or even much less 
frequently ; while those chief notes, which mainly constitute the song of 
the other bird, and make it so impressive, are rarely pronounced by the 
Devonshire thrush.” — Jesse, E.: Scenes and Occupations of Country Life 
(London, 1853), p. 112. 
; : See Index, Variations, etc. 
Imitation. 
Mr. Allen’s statement (sce Index, Allen, J. A.), that the 
oriole song brought vividly to mind that of the Western 
meadow lark suggests the old subject of the influence of 
