’■otes on 
H r '-c ? lny& 
®£k. 
3. A r& >id warble, at tines flot/ln j cwoothly a. id 
evenly arid i 1 general effect exceedingly like 
the song. of the Purple Finch; at others brighter 
and more glancing, the notes rolling o.:e over 
another nd mig esti t the Mby-oro -.ed 
Kinglet; again, tfith a rich, throoty quality 
and In fora on well as tone Very closely like the 
eoug of the House dren; still again guttural 
and aorneohat broken o? stuttering and very si w* ' 
gestisre of the song f the Lpn/£~bllled Porsh 
rmu although th< fir ' L last of those 
songs were very unlike, I have classified them 
under one head because the bird often g ve- then 
all during one singing oeriod and, moreover, 
changed from o e to another b-• insensible 
, gradations, 
4, song in slow, measured bars or cadences, separated 
by brief Intervals, swelling • d slaking, so ie ,'f 
the notes trilled or "shaken*, the whole jiven 
Jfter t : • annex of the songs of ths Hermit 
Thrush and baohnan *3 Finch and almost equally 
spiritual in uallty. 
'Ith such a repertoire —. even th -ugh it be bor¬ 
rowed or stolen — Lincoln’s "loch might readily take rank 
rip tht. first among forth America® singing-birds, were it 
a ;t that hie voice has apparently so little ower that . 
one :ust be very aar him to appreciate its remarkable 
beauty and flexibility. 
