APPENDIX, 215 
J. E HARTING. 
(In “ Birds of Middlesex.”’) 
BLACKCAP, (Sylvia atricapitia.) 
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J. V. Stewart, in “Birds of the N. E. coast of Donegal.’’ 
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i “ Its song, if deserving of that name, consists of ten whistling notes, 
which it runs through the gamut of B, thus: [see notation.] The latter 
notes are very soft, and run into each other.” — Quoted in Harting, J. E.: 
Birds of Middlesex, p. 53. 
Mr. Harting, speaking of the methods of reproducing bird-songs, says: 
“A flute or flageolet will give the proper sound, but the most perfect 
expression will be obtained with a small whistle, two and a half inches 
long, and having three perforations. . . . By reducing the length of the 
tube by a stop or plug, the whistle may, by experiment with the bird, be ad- 
justed to the exact pitch, and the stop be then fixed. — Harting, J. E. : Birds 
of Middlesex, Introduction, p. ix. 
“ Colonel Hawker, in his ‘Instructions to Young Sportsmen’ (11th ed. 
p. 269), says: ‘The only note which I ever heard the wild swan, in winter, 
utter, is his well-known ‘whoop.’ But one summer evening I was amused 
with watching and listening to a domesticated one, as he swam up and 
down the water in the Regent’s Park. He turned up a sort of melody, 
made with two notes, C and the minor third, E flat, and kept working 
his head as if delighted with his own performance. The melody, taken 
down on the spot by a first-rate musician, Auguste Bertini, was as 
follows: [See Notation.]’ 
