FAMILY Mniotiltide. 
rhythm and character, it is in two.’”’ He is quite right if 
my notations adequately represent the song, and the 
divisions may easily be recognized by the relative appear- 
ance of the notes on the staff even by those who may say 
they do not read music! The Tennessee is really not un- 
common in the White Mountain region, Mr. Walter Deane 
reports him as present in Shelburne, in 1918, 719, he has 
shown himself nearly every June here and there in the 
northern Pemigewasset Valley of late years, and long ago 
Bradford Torrey reported him as-an old acquaintance in 
Franconia. But the fact is, one will easily find twenty 
Nashvilles to a single Tennessee if one starts off on a special 
hunt for the latter. 
Water-Thrush An interesting little Warbler with a strong 
Sieurus _. preference for the swamp. Its breast is 
noveboracensis : 
L. 5.80 inches Marked with streaky spots far less round 
May roth than those of the Wood Thrush, and the 
common name arises from a fancied similarity to that bird. 
Upper parts deep olive-brown, a whitish line over the eye, 
the under parts yellowish white of a sulphur tinge heavily 
streaked with sepia-black, no wing-bars, tail an even olive- 
brown. Nest, mostly of moss held together with tiny ten- 
drils and rootlets, lodged in a mossy bank, or among the 
roots of a fallen tree, or at the base of moss-covered logs. 
Egg, white or buff-white with light-brown markings about 
the larger end. This species from northern Ontario, 
Ungava, and Newfoundland south to central Ontario, New 
York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, and through 
the mountains to West Virginia. It is a common summer 
resident of the White, Green, Adirondack, and Catskill 
mountains, and the swamps in central and western New 
York. 
The song of the Water-thrush has been called a “wild, 
ringing roundelay suggestive of the cool, bubbling streams 
of its summer home.” That is an excellent simile, but 
there is no particular reason why it should not apply as 
well to the song of any one of the Wrens! The difference 
between the song of this Warbler and that of the Wren 
is a fundamental one, the Wren at once approaches a 
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