The Singing of Birds. E.P.Bicknell, 
Chrysomitris pinus. Pine Linnet. 
In his record of the nesting at Sing-Sing, N. Y., in 1883, of 
the Pine Linnet (Bull. N. O. C., Vol. VIII, No. 3, p. 180, July, 
1883), Dr. A. K. Fisher has told us that the bird was in full song 
after May 8. The species undoubtedly nested at Riverdale the 
same season, although no nest was discovered, and in early May 
it was often heard in song. This year they are again with us, 
and singing at the end of March. Their best efforts issue in a 
confusion of somewhat hard and hurried notes, tending to degen- 
erate into a chatter. 
Mr. Jonathan Dwight, Jr., has favored me with some interest- 
ing personal observations on this species, showing that in the 
spring of 1883, when it bred in the Hudson Valley, it was also 
common on parts of Long Island. At Rockaway, and at Cypress 
Hills Cemetery, Mr. Dwight saw them and heard them singing 
at different times between March 15 and May 2. He speaks of 
their song as a “soliloquizing gabble, interspersed with a pro- 
longed wheeze — a prolongation of their usual note while flying.” 
This hoarse note sometimes sounds much like a common note of 
the English House Sparrow. Before it was familiar to me it 
was with no little surprise that I heard at Big Moose Lake, deep 
in the Adirondack Wilderness, a bird-note so suggestive of city 
streets. 
Auk, I, Oct., 1884. p. 32 %~ 329 
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