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NASHVILLE WARBLER 



Miss Paddock sends six renderings of the Nashville's song and 

 writes : "The first half of the Nashville's song is sibilant, the last half 

 is a twitter. I cannot agree with Mr. Matthews that the first part is 

 always 'lame-legged', though it is often so." 



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"A very pecuHar song, unlike the usual quality, and in leisurely 

 fashion, ran as follows: The tempo was regular and all the notes 

 seemed to utter the syllables chip, chip, chip." 



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Nesting Site. — The nest is apparently always placed on the 

 ground, the character of the situation being indicated by the following 

 quotations: "the side of a knoll well concealed by brakes and brush. 

 * * * on the roots of a small bush that grew from the side of a 

 knoll" (MorrelP) ; "under a shrub or tree much after the fashion of 

 the Black and White Warbler" (Bowles*) ; "the nests I have found 

 have uniformly been in the side of sphagnum tussocks, and well 

 sunken out of sight from above, so that one must stoop to look into 

 them" (Preston^). Nests found by Spaulding at Lancaster, N. H., 

 were in the side of grassy knolls. 



