1. His Name Is Wasabi
2. The One With More Proof Of The Conspiracy Against Me
3. The One Where I Mention I'm Not Going Crazy (Really)

His name is Wasabi. He is a male Spice finch. His feathers are in good shape, although he has a bare spot at the back of his neck. He has a blue band around his right leg. So far. He doesn't bite at it to try to make it fall off. So far. Of all my male Spice finches, he's the one that comes closest to having a Hunka Hunka Burning Love dance. His Hunka Hunka Burning Love song goes a little like this:

I'm not positive I have this diagram correct. I've drawn it several times over the past few weeks, and it always looks a little different. Part of the problem is that when Wasabi sings it, he uses those three descending whistles at the beginning. But when Peppercorn (Mélènge) sings it, he precedes it with a long string of nearly silent and unpronounceable whistles, and usually uses four descending notes at the beginning. Interestingly, when Peppercorn (Mélènge) sings Cinnamon and Ovaltine's song — primarily that first part, with the descending trill — he also adds a lot more nearly silent and unpronounceable whistles both before and after than any of the other birds do. Just today, I caught him practicing Earl Grey's song. Suddenly, he's singing all the time!

Obviously, I'm going to have to kill Peppercorn (Mélènge). It will be easy to twist his tiny little neck, with all those missing feathers....

Lucky for him, he looks almost exactly like Szechwan (Pepper), and since Szechwan (Pepper) is kind enough to sing the same song the same way all the time, Peppercorn (Mélènge)'s life will likely be spared.

(And I should mention: lucky for me that I found that broken pink leg band. Otherwise I would still be looking all over the apartment for a small, brown bird with a pink band on his left leg, and obsessively counting birds in the Finsterium.)

(And I should also mention that Bruce says the new Finsters couldn't possibly be making me go crazy, since I already am crazy.)

I'm pretty sure that Wasabi's Hunka Hunka Burning Love song is almost as unchanging and dependable as Szechwan (Pepper)'s song. Once I get Peppercorn (Mélènge)'s song sorted out — assuming that's possible, of course — I'll pin down his song.