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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COMPRA PAN (Grallaria ruficapilla) Impressions of the Voices of Tropical Birds 163
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THE NOON-WHISTLE (Chamaza turdina) any variation in the song except, when the bird is near the limit of its curiosity,the last note sometimes drops off in a throaty slur, instead of rising a tone:A, F, E. On the west slope of the Eastern Andes we found another species, G.hypoleuca, whose song, though readily recognizable as a Grallaria was radically different in form. One longish note on B; a rest; then about five ascending notes a scant semitone apart, and four to the second. This bore a striking resemblance to the first half of Chamceza brevicaudas song heard on the eastern slope of the Eastern Andes at Buena Vista, and is almost identical with that of Grallaria rufula from the highest timbered ridges of this chain,except that here the pause is omitted and the song is higher, beginning on E. Little Grallaria modesta from the eastern foot of the Andes at Villavicencio, i64 Bird - Lore has a most characteristic little song, all on E. It has seven sharply staccato notes, forming a perfe

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