England.
Oxford.
1911.
July 5 
( No 5 )
[July 5, 1911]

Song of the Thrush.

this season perches habitually - if not invariably - while singing
on St. Giles' church directly across the street from our boarding house
sometimes choosing the Iona cross at one end of the [?], sometimes
the ridge of a higher part of the roof. Usually but not invariably
he begins with ten or a dozen notes given deliberately and
smoothly much in the manner of our Robin's song and indeed
strongly suggesting it. But after this prelude he lapses into the 
Thrasher-like style of song. I have heard one or two other
birds begin in the same way. The St. Giles bird is evidently
an exceptionally fine performer but, like all the others, he
is fast losing vigor & expressiveness of utterance and I fear
we shall not hear him at all many days more. (This 
last section was added on July 9th)