66o APPENDIX. 



No. V. 



EXPERIMENTS and OBSERVATI- 

 ONS on the SINGING of BIRDS, 

 by the Hon. DAINES BARRING- 

 TON. In a letter to MATHEW 

 MATY, M.D. Sec. R. S. 1773. 



From the Philosophical Transactions, Vol. LXIII. 



Dear Sir, 



AS the experiments and observations I mean 

 to lay before the Royal Society relate to 



the Tinging of birds, which is a fubjedt that hath 

 never before been icientifically treated of*, it may 

 not be improper to prefix an explanation of fome 

 uncommon terms, which I (hall be obliged to ufe, 

 as well as others which I have been under a necefH- 

 ty of coining. 



* Kircber, indeed, in his Mufurgia, hath given us fome 

 few paffages in the fong of the nightingale, as well as the 

 call of a quail and cuckow, which he hath engraved in mufical 

 characters . Thefe inftances, however, only p*cve that fome 

 birds have in their fong, notes which correfpond with the in- 

 tervals of our common fcale of the mvmcaJ ©Save, 



To 



