Identifier: birdlore161914nati (find matches)
Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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TINAMOU (Crypturus) Impressions of the Voices of Tropical Birds 3 pause; then an exceedingly high trill, swelling and dying. These singerswere common at about five thousand feet, and their choral chanting wasan experience to be long remembered. Myadestes ohscurus, of southernMexico, has a song more spontaneous and overflowing than the other tropicalspecies; I thought of a Bobolink when I first heard it. The song began high inthe scale, and very loud; then through the rich progression of its bubbling
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JAMAICAN SOLITAIRE (Myadestes soUtarius) 4 Bird - Lore cadences it gradually fell in pitch and lost volume till it died out, as with lossof breath. This is the Jilguero of the natives, while unicolor is known asClarin. Distinguished from these as jilguero de la tierra are the wrens of thegenus Leucolehis, which have a way of singing at your very feet, hidden underthe ferns and low-growing soft plants of earth. Theirs too, are violin tones, and,though the songs are not rare, the singer is seldom seen, however patiently yousearch or wait for him in the mosquito-ridden air of his dripping haunts. It hasalways seemed a mystery to me how these little birds of the cloud-forest keepdry. They are, indeed, the only dry thing you would encounter in a weekshunt, for overhead all is oozing water, all the leaves are shiny-wet, and underfoot is soaking, rotting vegetable mold or deep muddy ooze, that frequentlylets you in over your boot-tops. In the same forests that shelter the Tinamou and Solitai

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