HOODED WARBLER, 
yellow; lower parts bright lemon yellow of a light tone; 
bill with bristles at the base. Female similarly marked 
but the colors dull, and the more restricted hood less 
sharply defined. Nest in a bush or small tree, and gen- 
erally situated in a Y fork, a few feet from the ground; 
it is built of dried leaves, shreds of bark, rootlets, and 
grasses, and lined with finer material of the same nature. 
Egg cream white slightly spotted with ruddy brown 
thicker at the larger end. This bird is distributed 
through eastern North America as far north as southern 
Michigan and Ontario in the interior, and to southeast- 
ern New York and Connecticut on the seaboard; it breeds. 
from the Gulf States north to the limit of the range, and 
winters in Central America. 
The song of the Hooded Warbler is in no respect like 
that of the Maryland Yellow-throat; it lacks the power- 
ful accent and the pointed rhythm of that bird’s well- 
known wichity, wichity, etc. The Rev. J. H. Langille 
describes it in syllables thus: che-ree, cheree, chi-de-ee, 
and besides, gives another form that the bird sings at 
night of which I know nothing. Still another form 
is given by Mr. Jones, but it is evidently not the one 
which It know, for the syllables will not fit my notations; 
it runs thus: che-weo-tsip che-we-eo. The music which 
follows Shows two slightly sustained syllables succeeded 
by about three short and rapid ones, thus: 
Vivace JS 3 times 8va. 
Cheree, cheree, ehi-di-ee. 
There is a drop of the voice at the end of the song which is 
similar to that in the song of the Chestnut-sided. AsI have 
but this one record of the Hooded Warbler’s song, and the 
. bird seems to be so very uncommon as far nortin as New 
Jersey, it is impossible to say whether I have caught the 
typical song or not. Mr. Torrey gives no syllabic form 
in his writings, as far as my knowledge goes, but reports 
the bird very common in the country arcund Chatta- 
nooga, Tenn. 
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