FAMILY Mniotiltide. 
green-trees, and situated not more than six feet above 
the ground; it is built of twigs, moss, and rootlets, and 
lined with fine grasses. Egg white heavily spotted on 
the larger end with madder brown, cinnamon brown, 
and olive. The range of the bird is through eastern 
North America and northward; it breeds from New 
England northward to Greenland and Alaska, and win- 
ters in northern South America. 
The Black-poll Warbler has a very thin voice and a 
monotonous song nearly confined to one tone, and re- 
sembling the rather more musical effort of the Myrtle 
Warbler. The notes are slightly characterized by an 
overtong, but are too stridulent in quality to possess any 
musical merit. Here is one of the only two records I 
possess: 
Tne song begins with a crescendo and a slight diminu- 
endo almost immediately succeeds. There is another 
form, which tolerably represents the syllables ‘‘ tsip, tsip, 
tsip, tsee, tsee, te” of Mr. Lynes Jones. But I can not 
see that this differs materially from the form given in 
my first notation : 
This warbler is a distinctive woodland character often 
heard rather than seen in the forests of the White Moun- 
tains, and partial to the upper branches of the trees, 
though he not infrequently visits the ground. My own 
observations in this respect are sustained by those of Mr. 
Torrey, who says he saw some feeding upon a lawn for 
a long time, during his visit to Chattanooga.* 
* Vide Spring Notes from Tennessee, page 96, 
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