TENNESSEE WARBLER. 
whitish line over the eye and a dusky bar through it, the 
inner webs of the two outer tail feathers margined with 
white, no wing bars, under parts dull white, the breast 
often tinged with buffy yellow. Nest on or near the ground 
usually in dense growths of spruce and fir, or occasionally 
of mountain ash; it is built of bark fibre, grasses, and moss, 
lined with hair and soft material. Egg, china white with 
a wreath of spots about the larger end. The species breeds 
from southern Mackensie and southern Ungava to Anti~ 
costi Island, and southward to northern Maine, New 
Hampshire (probably northern New York), Ontario, and 
Northern Minnesota. 
The song of the little Tennessee is not likely to be con- 
fused with that of any other Warbler, it has a marked 
crescendo followed by an equally marked diminuendo: 
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I cannot say exactly that of the others’ songs, the Black. 
poll’s excepted; they may be structurally similar to this 
one which I admit begins like the Nashville’s with zig- 
zagging notes and finishes with—according to the popular 
idea—a trill; but there is no trill, the finishing notes are 
reiterations dropping indefinitely two or three tones. Mr. 
Farwell’s description in Chapman’s Warblers of North 
America is fairly close to my notation if one bears in mind 
that the Chippy also does not trill but reiterates! He 
writes of the song that it is ‘‘very loud, beginning with a 
sawing, two-noted trill, rather harsh and very staccato 
but hesitating in character, increasing to a rapid trill 
almost exactly like a Chipping Sparrow, a noticeable but 
not musical song.’”’ Like the Black-poll’s notes, the first 
groups of two notes each are deliberately and sharply 
staccato, while all are delivered crescendo et diminuendo. 
In The foot-path Way, page 8, Bradford Torrey goes 
to some length in a word description of the song, and calls 
it “long, very sprightly, and peculiarly staccato.” Then 
he adds, ‘‘As to pitch, the song is in three parts, but as to 
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