... hunters, in their night excursions, know that the moon rising the instant they begin to hear his delightful solo. His natural notes partake of a character to those of the brown thrush, but they are more sweet, more expressive, varied, uttered with greater ...

... full a n d p l eas i ng, except when she elevates it above the natural pitch, when it appears like the !ansition from the natural note to the falsette in an ..unpractised singer. This, however, is a fault we do t'Or despair of her being able to remedy. Her ...

... low and confined contralto. She had entirely lost all its upper tones, and possessed little more than one octave of good natural notes ; if she attempted to go higher, she produced only a shriek, quite unnatural, and almost painful to the ear. Her first ...