WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 184, 30 April 1919, Page 5

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Continued from Page i) The Birds on Kapiti.

I In support of his" statement that birds ynderstood and practised part-singing and sung in chorus as well, Mr. Johannes Andersen, in the courso of his lecturo upon New Zealand song birds, given at the Pioneer Club last-ovening, described the early morning singing of the birds on Kapili Island. At three o'clock, when the whole island was wrapped in darkness, he had heard the first notes of 'the tui -steal across tho valley, the only sound in all that stillness, when even the wind and the sea seemed to be sleeping. Again and again the call was heard, to lie at last answered by another tui, and as they called and answered each other, sometimes in duet, somotimes alone, other birds around took up the call, and joined in, until finally the chorus of the birds was such as to bo indescribable in its beauty. In all that jubilation of 'song there was not one note to be heard out of harmony. There may not have been a sense of time, but the notes of the chord were there in perfect unison. In his opinion there was no question of the fact that birds had as keen, if not keener sense, of the beauty of music, and an ear for it as had human beings.