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studietl the song so carefully that he is fully qualified to speak 

 for his locality at least. He has clearly distinguished a type 

 for the earlier migrants and another for such as remain to 

 breed. The migration type is : pecr-ry pecr-ry pcer-ry peer-ry 

 pi'cr-n\ often clicc chcc chec perc-ty pcrc-cy perc-cy. The breed- 

 ing song is : too-dle too-dlc ioo-dle too-dic. The style of delivery 

 is Cardinal-like, but weaker and finer in tone. The song car- 

 ries far, ringing thru the woods. The bird seems to prefer to 

 sing while perched, and rarely if ever does so while feeding. 



One must look for this Warbler in rather den.sely grown 

 wet or well watered woods, more often on the ground than in 

 the trees. He is one of the Warblers that walk. 



Mr. Burns states that the .song period cea.ses about the 

 middle of July (17 in IS'.)'.)), and no mention is made of re- 

 newal of .song later. 



West to the Plains, north to .southern Michigan. Breeds 

 from the Gidf states northward. 



This properly clo.ses the group of true whistlers. While 

 the species which follow are tran.sational they are more clo.sely 

 allied to those which precede than to any others. They are 

 strong-voiced birds whose .songs possess a carrying power 

 second only to the preceding species, and exceeding .some of 

 them. The most familiar one is 



Maryland Yellow-throat. Gcof/i/ypis f?-i(/ias. (isj. 



The call .song is a repetition of three or four syllabled 

 phrases, one of the .syllables strongly accented. vSometimes 

 the accent is on one, sometimes on another syllable. The va- 

 riation is neither individual nor seasonal, as au}^ one may 

 readily prove by listening to an individual -sing for half an 

 hour. The song is well represented by the syllables com- 

 monly u.sed to describe it : icichity, icichity, ivichity, or iccc-clic- 

 ti\ for the three - syllabled song, and zvee-te-chec-te or zcec- 

 tee-sce-fce, for the four-syllabled. In every three-syllabled song 

 that I have heard the accent has been on the first syllable. In 

 the four-syllabled it may be on either of the four, at the pleas- 

 ure of the performer. The accented syllable has the appear- 

 ance of being longer than the others, and it is often on a 

 higher pitch.. Not infrequently the third and fourth .syllables 



