FAMILY Mniotiltidz, 
st will be seen, exactly fit my notation; consequently, 1 
suspect the bird has few if any variations to his song. 
Mr. Minot describes a form by syllables which may be 
slightly different: ‘‘ wee-see-wee-see, tsve-see, tsee, tsee, 
tsee-see tsee, tsee,” but it is perhaps only a double form, 
if I read the two hyphened syllables fsee-see aright; 
naturally, I take them to be given quicker than the 
others. 
Black-throated This is one of our commoner Warblers, 
Green Warbler 4nq by all odds the finest singer of the 
Dendroica ‘ : 
EB Vokes whole group. At best his song is exceed- 
L.s5.10inches ingly brief and high-pitched, and _ his 
May 5th voice is thin; but one entertains little 
doubt about his intervals; they are tolerably good, and 
greatly help to make the well-marked rhythm attractive. 
The bird is also beautifully colored. Top of head and 
region nearly down to the shoulders yellow-green; a bar 
over the eye, the sides of the face and neck bright yel- 
low; back olive green rarely black-spotted; ear-coverts 
dusky yellow; throat and breast jet black; two white 
wing-bars on each wing; the inner vanes of outer tail 
feathers entirely white, the outer web with a white 
base; under parts white sometimes suffused with pale 
yellow. Female similarly marked but the black largely 
reduced by yellow and rendered dusky. Nest in ever- 
green-trees and situated from ten to forty feet above the 
ground; it is built of fine twigs, rootlets, moss, and 
grasses, and lined with finer material of the same 
nature. Egg white spotted with umber and olive 
mostly at the larger end. The bird is distributed 
throughout eastern North America; it breeds from 
Connecticut north to Hudson’s Bay, and at high eleva- 
tions of the Alleghanies south to South Carolina. Its 
favorite tree is the pine, although it may be found in the 
deciduous woods quite frequently. 
The song of the Black-throated Green Warbler is dis- 
tinguished for its suggestive rhythm and its deliberate 
tempo. This bird is not in such a hurry as the others of | 
the family, and his voice possesses the pleasing variety 
af contrast in tone. Of the usual five notes which he 
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