NORTHERN PARULA WARBLER. 
In every case the Nashville accents (i. e., goes lame- 
legged on) one or the other of his slurred notes, and that 
ought to be a very strong point in the identification of 
the song, regardless of its unique dual character. Minot 
evidently heard the accent on the first syllable instead 
of the second, for he writes it: ‘‘ Wee’-see, wee'-see, wit-a- 
wit-a-wit.” I remember hearing my friend Prof. J. B. 
Sharland tell his quartette to sing the notes in the open- 
ing bars of Rossini’s Carnovale, as they were written, 
 lame-legged,” thus: 
The Carnovale. Rossini. 
rea 
H i eae eS 
1 ae oo ee a 
We are beggars struck with blindnessliving on the rich mans kindness, 
The rhythm is exactly that of the Nashville’s song! 
Northern Pa- This tiny jewellike Warbler is locally 
_ Sherk tai common in New England. He is fre- 
pail oan ne quently called the Blue Yellow-backed 
iehete Warbler. His colors are a rather ex- 
L. 4-72 inches traordinary combination of zsthetic tones. 
May roth Crown gray-blue; upper parts blue-gray, 
but middle of the back bright greenish yellow forming a 
definite patch; black-gray in front of the eye; two white 
wing-bars; outer tail feathers white-patched near the 
tip; throat and breast yellow, the latter marked with 
a burnt sienna or chestnut band in spots, the color ex- 
tending to the throat, sides brownish gray. Female 
similarly colored, but the chestnut necklace generally 
absent. Nest built of moss, lichens, dead leaves, and 
bits of twigs; it is generally constructed (at least in 
mountain regions where such material is plenty) of the 
long, stringy moss known as usnea, which is commonly 
found suspended from the dead under-limbs of spruces 
and firs. Egg white with chestnut speckles thickest at 
the largerend. The bird is distributed throughout North 
America as far north as Canada; it breeds locally in New 
England, New York. and the States on the northern 
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