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bier. The nest was very large and compact. On the bottom were 

 quite a few dead leaves, interwoven with coarse straws ; inside of 

 these a lot of finer stems, and lined with dark rootlets and a very few 

 hairs. Neither the nest nor the eggs were at all similar to the 

 Maryland Yellowthroats, which I fancied they would resemble. 

 Since that I have found no nests, but I find the birds in similar 

 localities each year, on hillsides overgrown with raspberry bushes, 

 facing woods at a short distance." 



I first identified this interesting species in Farmington, about 

 fifteen years ago. I saw it and heard it singing on a hillside, near a 

 small stream, the latter part of May, and have usually seen one or 

 more pairs each spring since. It has a rich, gurgling song, and 

 when once it becomes fixed in one's ear it is not to be forgotten, and 

 not likely to be confounded with the song of any of its relatives. 

 For a description of its song I can do no better than to quote from 

 Chapman's Handbook: "Its common song consists of a simple, 

 clear, warbling whistle, resembling the syllables true, true, true, 

 tru, too, the voice rising on the first three syllables and falling on 

 the last two." 



During the nesting season he has a way of perching at fre- 

 quent intervals on some branch, usually a dead one, and singing for 

 fifteen or twenty minutes, then very suddenly he takes a rapid 

 descent to the thicket near by, where doubtless his mate is sitting on 

 the nest. On June 12th, 1894, at Farmington, I observed a male 

 singing on a perch near a raspberry thicket, on a sidehill sloping up 

 from a small stream, but though I spent several mornings trying to 

 locate the nest I was not able to do so. I saw a pair evidently nest- 

 building near Winslow (Kennebec Co.) the last days of May, 1901, 

 but lack of time prevented me from locating the nest, though I had 

 it marked to a certain hillside not far from the Kennebec river. 

 The next year I saw a pair near the same ravine, and also a pair 

 evidently engaged in rearing their young between Athens and Hart- 

 land, in vSomerset Co. The same year, in June, I heard the song of 

 this Warbler on a hillside in Farmington, and located a nest which I 

 presumed was of this species, but, try as I might, the female would 



