Wotee of 
l^«» Klcker" 
Observations 
on the 
" Kioker* * 
singing at onoe, more or less uniformly. 
Bone gave only the squealing cry, -vfhich was frequently 
doubled, soir-.etliaes trebled and twice repeated no less than 
five times without pause, thus* ausey-^auees^ or auee^auee* 
Gueeah, or o^e^^»qp^ee^^c^uee-o^e»*aueeah. One or two birds 
uttered what was very nearly the normal song as 1 remember 
It in former years, but with less than the usual amber of 
ld;£-y;£8* 1^ either Ic^lo kic^ qu.eeah, or ki9- *l^.ig* klcr > 
gpeea^bi. The bird nearest us used the klo- » klo notes only a 
few time and never uttered more than two of them at a time. 
Evidently he w s not In full song and we thouf^t that he 
was calling rather than singing as, indeed, was a’»par©Jitly 
the ease with one or two of the others, neither Faxon or I 
o;in remember ever hearing the queeah used so much In this 
way before, or th;,t we ever heal'd it given more than twice 
during any one utterance of the song, in the earlier years. 
Although I have Just choraoterized it as a "squealing" 
cry, it is so cheery and bright in quality as to be almost 
musical, especially when heard very neor at harid as it was 
repeatedly to-night. At a considerable dlstance It was 
sometlraes so faint as to be ae rly inaudible alien the kio-kica 
came distinctly to our earsj whereas the reverse of this 
occasionally happened, i.e, we heard the kic-lci 08 ,but very 
imperfectly and the squealing oueeah very plainly, both 
being evidently given at the same time by the same bird. 
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