NASHVILLE WARBLER. 
Nashville This delightful little Warbler with a 
Warbler jolly song and engaging, cheerful man- 
che lala ners, is measurably common throughout 
re ee New York and New England. His color- 
L. 4.75 inches ing is as refined as that of the Golden- 
May 8th wing, though it is a little more pronounced 
in effect. The top and sides of head blue-gray; beneath 
the crown-feathers in partial concealment is a patch 
of burnt sienna or chestnut feathers; upper parts 
olive green; no wing-bars; lower parts beautifully 
graded from pale cadmium yellow to yellow-white; 
wings and tail edged with clear olive green. Female 
similarly colored but the yellow not quite so bright. 
Nest on the ground in brushy pastures or sparse woods; 
it is built of plant fibres, moss, and rootlets, and lined 
with finer material ofthe same nature. Egg white pro- 
fusely speckled with red-brown especially at the larger 
end. The bird is distributed throughout eastern North 
America; it breeds from Connecticut northward, and 
winters in Central America. Its favorite haunts are the 
half overgrown pasture, or open woodland where the 
trees are mostly very young. I recollect spending an 
hour of the early morning, on the twenty-second of 
May last, in the hilly pasture of the Davis place, Camp- 
ton, watching no less than fifteen Nashville Warblers 
joyously chasing each other about among the tops of the 
young spruces and firs, and singing incessantly while on 
the wing. 
The song of the Nashville is a delightfully typical 
one with little or no rhythmic variation so far as my 
knowledge extends. Few could fail to recognize its 
stereotyped character after once having had that fully 
explained to them. Those who can depend upon time 
beats for the recognition of a bird’s song will experience 
no difficulty with the well-accented music of the Nash- 
ville. I have already represented the song by dots in 
the Musical Key ; it is a bit of rhythm that skips along 
in a most lively fashion and ends with a ripple! Ex- 
pressed by dots, it should appear thus: 
or, if one preferssyllables, thus: Te-dum', te-dum’, te-dum', 
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