Waiting for Warblers. 



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"song" is heard, for those that are said to merely 

 chirp or twitter sometimes repeat their single note 

 so rapidly that it becomes song-like. An excited 

 warbler is very suggestive of a person who stutters. 

 There may be but one syllable uttered, but it is 

 uttered with vigor, and sounds something like a whole 



sentence. There are exceptions, naturally, but one 

 has good grounds for being positive when the black- 

 throated green warblers are under observation. 

 There is little chance, in such a case, of being 

 misled. This pretty bird has a song, — is a '' warbler" 

 in the proper sense of that word ; and this moves me 

 to say that the group as a whole are not happily 



