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resemble, at times, ) tsMppe-tshayia too too , and some- 
times 9 tshippee 9 tshipp.ee , (lispingly) too too , (with the 2 
last syllables loud and full.) These notes are also varied 
by some birds so as to resemble ’tsh ’tsh ’ 1 sheet shoo tshoo , 
tshoo * also ’ tsh ’tsheefa 9 tsheefd ’ tsheefa , and ’k’tuf 
a tuf d ttif a tea kerry ;f another bird I have occasionally 
heard to call for hoars, with some little variation, tu, teo 
teo teo too in a loud, querulous, and yet almost ludicrously 
merry strain. At other intervals, the sensations of soli- 
tude seem to stimulate sometimes a loud and interrogato- 
ry note, echoed forth at intervals, as, k’rry kerry ? and 
terminating plaintively Ic’rry JcWry IcWry ? fit, , the voice 
falling off very slenderly in the last long syllable, which 
is apparently an imitation from the Cardinal Grosbeak, 
and the rest is derived from the Crested Titmouse whom 
they have already heard in concert as they passed through 
the warmer states. Another interrogatory strain which I 
heard here in the spring of 1830 was precisely, ’yyp 
’k’rry, 5 yyp , J yyp tirry, very loud and oft repeated. Anoth- 
er male went in his ordinary key, t sherry t sherry, tship- 
ee tsli’rry , notes copied from the exhaustless stock of the 
Carolina Wren (also heard on his passage), but modulated 
to suit the fancy of our vocalist. The female likewise 
sings, but less agreeably than the male. One which I had 
abundant opportunity of observing, while busied in the toil 
of weaving her complicated nest, every now and then, as a 
relief from the drudgery in which she was solely engaged, 
sung, in a sort of querulous and rather plaintive strain, the 
strange, uncouth syllables, ’kd Iced ’Jcowd, Iceha heka , the 
final tones loud and vaulting, which I have little doubt were 
* The first 3 of these notes are derived from the Summer Yellow Bird, though 
not its most usual tones. 
f The last phrase loud and ascending, the tea plaintive, and the last syllable tender 
and echoing. 
