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beautiful leaden color, with bands of black upon the 

 lower part of the throat. Most of these may be seen 

 for a few weeks early in Spring, but it is difficult to 

 distinguish between them, as they often frequent the 

 tops of the tallest forest trees ; at other times they 

 have been known to enter the city, and hop about 

 the shrubbery of the gardens. At the most they 

 are only known to us as the transient occupants of 

 our fresh-budding groves, the cooler atmosphere of 

 the mountains to which they retire, being more con- 

 genial, and more favorable for the purposes of incu- 

 bation. 



Closely connected with the Wood Warblers, is the 

 family of the true Warblers. As an illustration of 

 these, let us take the famous Nightingale of Europe, 

 whose powerful and melodious voice excites the won- 

 der and praise of the listener. That such a long- 

 continued succession of loud, clear, and musical notes 

 can be produced by a bird of such small dimensions, 

 is truly astonishing. It is no less remarkable for the 

 great variety in the tones than for their peculiar 

 clearness and melody. In order to illustrate this 

 point, some writer has attempted to reduce the notes 

 to plain English, a copy of which we here place 

 before our readers : 



" Tiou, tiou, tiou, tiou, Spe, tiou, squa, Tio, 

 tio, tio, tid, tio, tio, tio, tix, Coutio, coutio, coutio, 

 coutio, Squo, squo, squ6, squo, Tzu, tzu, tzu, tzu, 

 tzu, tzu, tzu, tzu, tzu, tzi, Corror, tiou, squa, pipiqui, 

 Tozozozozozozozozozozozo, zirrhading ! Tsissisi, 

 tsissisisisisisisis, Dzorre, dzorre, dzorre, dzorre, hi, 

 9 G 



