It is my belief that but few people altogether lack a sense of tune.
Some of my students at the University of Pittsburgh had difficulty, I
remember, in diagramming bird-songs; but with a little practice you will
be able to jot down syllables which will help you to recall bird-songs.
The well-known names _Chickadee_, _Phœbe_, and _Killdeer_ are all
permanent records of this very sort of syllabization of bird-songs—an
attempt to write down what the bird is saying. Sometimes a bird will be
heard again and again before it is seen. If my notes concerning songs
are at all accurate, some of these will help you to find birds which you
might have difficulty in identifying from appearance alone.