1891. 
July 7
England.
Lynton to Ilfracombe. - Cloudy and cold, the wind
blowing half a gale from the W.
  It seems there are at least a few small birds in
the terraced gardens of the cliff village of Lynton. I
heard a Chiffchaff singing early this morning in
the top of a beech tree near my window and after 
breakfast saw a Robin and two Blue Tits in the
backyard. The note of the Blue Tit is a lisping
Tshu`-du-du the tone of which is much like that
of Parus hudsonicus. All the other British Tits which
I have heard have similar notes. The close resemblance
of this call notes to those of North American Paridae
is the more interesting from the fact that the
chirping, scolding and call notes of most of the small
birds which I have heard in England [deleted]belong to[/deleted]
are not only widely different from those of any
American birds but seem to belong to a different 
type of sound. There are no tsips, tseps or tchups, nothing,
for instance, that bears the most distant resemblance
to the slight lisping calls and rounds, full chirps
of alarm or anxiety which, with variations so slight
as to recognized only by an expert, are in almost
universal use among the American Sylvicolidae
and Fringillidae. The chirps and calls of most
of the British Warblers and Sparrows are either
metallic like the sound of steel clashing against steel;
clinking, like that of pebbles; or chattering like that
of our Wrens. They seemed to be all formed on the
same models as the various calls of the House
Sparrow although few, fortunately, are so discordant
while many are rather pleasing. Of course there