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NATURE STUDY. 
r-ff— -^ 
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r *>- fe 5 -ft. 
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kuk - kuk-come to me - kuk - kuk. 
No. 5. 
Occasionally there would be a decided change ol key, as 
if after singing in the key of C the bird had changed to 
that of F, like this : 
The syllables ‘ ‘kuk kuk’ ’are intended to represent certain 
dry, unmusical tones which are frequently uttered before 
and between the strictly musical parts of the songs. The 
tremolo of 32d notes is a rich, resonant, gurgling alterna¬ 
tion of consonant tones at such a rapid rate that the effect 
of a sustained consonance is produced. No doubt the 
echoes are largely concerned in the “tout ensemble.’’ 
It must be borne in mind that these transcriptions and 
those which follow are but attempts, and very unsatisfac¬ 
tory ones, to reproduce in our notation, songs which can 
