The Warblers :—The Hedge Sparrow 47 
with other variations, for minutes at a time, the repetitions being 
separated by intervals of from one to four seconds. These notes 
are very high in pitch, and are all warbled moderately loud, 
in a bright vivacious manner. There is a little more variation of 
pitch, and more light and shade in (4) ; and whilst there was little 
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variation in the outline of (5), the strain contains a definite theme, 
and it is in perfect common time, warbled allegro, the octave 
slur and the vibrato note ending the alternate bars. There 
were unusually wide intervals in (6), and a curious elusiveness in 
the tempo, caused by a slight pause on the second note of the 
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triplets. The tempo again becomes definite in (7), a phrase 
which displays considerable art. The sequence of the notes 
was varied in the first two triplets, the first note of each triplet 
being accented; but the accent was unexpectedly suppressed, 
on the seventh note, and this note and the eighth were slightly 
