This book is the first English translation of a ground-breaking memoir on birdsong by the Italian naturalist Luigi Paolucci. It is accompanied by extensive annotations and introductory essay by the translator, Paolo Palmieri, that examines the scientific and philosophical questions raised by birdsong in relation to the history and philosophy of science, phenomenology, and the theoretical problems of the demarcation of the human and non-human animal. Paolucci's memoir focuses on first hand ecological research and offers a fundamental theory of birdsong as language and music. Paolucci studies...