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The Bay-breasted Warbler is leisurely, inconspicuous in its 

 movements and generally quiet. The female sometimes calls see- 

 sce-see, while slowly moving over the trees, and the male sings sce- 

 tce-scc-tce, eat. The latter is the only song of the Bay-breast with 

 which I am familiar ; it suggests a common song of the Black and 

 White Warbler, but is softer, fuller, more musical in tone. It is not 

 a song, however, that compels attention. Many times when the Bay- 

 breast was nesting within a few yards of a Black and White War- 

 bler and a Redstart, I had to pause a moment before I could decide 

 which of the three was singing. After migrating and during the 

 nesting period, the l)ird sings much less frequently than the Black- 

 throated Green, the Redstart, the Magnolia Warbler, the Chestnut- 

 sided, the Northern Yellowthroat or the Nashville. 



The Bay-breast gleans from the ground to the topmost twngs, 

 spending much time about midway of the tree, often hovering in 

 air while it snatches its fare from the under side of a branch. When 



