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WILD SCENES AND SONG-BIEDS. 
a strain composed of only two or three melancholy tones, lie 
begins in an under tone, and swelling it gradually by the 
most superb crescendo, to the highest point of strength, he 
ends it by a dying cadence ; or it consists of a rapid success- 
ion of more brilliant sounds, terminated, like many other 
strains of his song, by some detached note. Twenty-four 
different strains or couplets may be reckoned in the song of 
a fine Nightingale, without including its delicate little varia- 
tions, for among these, as among other musicians, there are 
some great performers and many middling ones. This song 
is so articulate, so speaking, that it may be very well written. 
The following is a trial which I have made on that of a Night- 
ingale in my neighborhood, which passes for a very capital 
singer : 
" Tiou, tiou, tiou, tiofj. 
Spe, tiou, squa. 
Tio, tio, tio, tio, tid, tio, tio, tio. 
Coutio, coutio, coutio, coutio. 
Squo, squo, squo, sqiio. 
Tzu, tzu, tzii, tzu, tzu, tzu, tzu, tzu, tzu, tzi. 
OoiTO, tiou, squa, pipiqui. 
Zozozozozozozozozozozozo, zirrhading! 
Tsissisi, tsissisisisisisisisis. 
Dzorre, dzorre, dzorre, dzorre, hi. 
Tzatu, tzatii, tzatu, tzatu, tzatu, tzatu, tzatu, dzi, 
Dlo, dlo, dlo, dlo, dlo, dlo, dlo, dlo, dlo. 
Quio, tr rrrrrrrr itz. 
Lu, In, la, lu, ]y, ly, ly, lie, lie, lie, lie.* 
Quio, didl li lulylie. 
Hagurr, gurr guipio. 
Coui, coui, coui, coui, qui, qui, qui, qui, gui, gui, gui, gui.f 
Goll, goll, goll, goll, quia Ladadoi. 
Couiqui, lioiT, ha diadia dill si ! 
* I possess a nightingale which repeats these brawling, melancholy 
notes, often thirty or even fifty times. Many pronounce qii^ quy^ qui, 
and others, qu quy gui. 
t These syllables are pronounced in a sharper, clearer manner than the 
preceding lu, lu^ &c. — Author. 
