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IN NATURE for August 11 (p. 343) there is an interesting article on music in Nature; the writer evidently being inclined to deny that true musical notes, and especially several notes in succession having a musical relation to one another, can be found in bird songs. However this may be in the Old World, we have in the New at least one example of a bird which not only sings, or rather whistles, pure and well-sustained musical notes, but has a succession of notes with such intervals as to form a simple melody. I refer to the scarlet tanager.
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COLEMAN, A. Music in Nature. Nature 36, 605 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036605a0
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