158 WOOD NOTES WILD. 



Black-throated Green warbler. — Contin. 



See Lunt, H. : Across Lots, p. 72. 



Nuttall describes the black-throat's song as a " quaint and indolent ditty." 

 For a pleasant chat about the warblers see Amory, Catherine : Birds 

 in "Wood and Field. {Swiss Cross, vol. iv., 1888, no. 6, p. 162.) 



Redstart. (-See p. 5i.) 



Mr. Cheney was taking his bird-songs at Lynn and 

 Franklin while Mr, Nelson was making observations at 

 Worcester, and their reports — though neither knew of 

 the existence of the other — are even nearer together than 

 the localities where they were engaged.^ Mr. Nelson de- 

 scribes the redstart's song as "much resembling that of 

 the yellow warbler, though considerably shorter and 

 weaker." 



"The song of the redstart is simple and pleasing, but constantly varied. 

 Sometimes it is merely a rather shrill che-we'e-o or che-we'e-o-we'e-o, at other 

 times it is che-iv^e-see-w^e-see-ivee, or a soft w^e-see-we'e-see-we'e, much like 

 the song of the yellow-bird (D. aestiva), and again a series or repetition 

 of a few gentle notes, which form an indefinite song." — Minot, H. D. : 

 Land-birds and Game-birds of N. E., p. 131. 



"Nuttall's description of the movements of this brisk 

 bird sounds like one of the happier passages of Homer : 



" He does not, like the loitering pewee, wait the accidental 

 approach of the insect prey ; but carrying the war amongst 

 them, he is seen flitting from bough to bough, or at times pur- 

 suing the flying troop of winged insects from the top of the 

 tallest tree in a zig-zag, hawk-like, descending flight, to the 

 ground, while the clicking of the bill declares distinctly both 

 his object and success." 



See also Lunt, H. : Across Lots, p. 103. 



^ For another instance of close agreement with a second reporter see 

 Index, Wood Thrush. 



