KEN1TUCKY WARBLER. 
clothed in the best of taste, with nothing patchy, nothing 
fantastic or even fanciful.’ The large nest is built of 
twigs, rootlets, and dried leaves, lined with fine rootlets 
and horsehairs; it is placed directly upon the ground or 
in the shrubbery near to it. Egg, china or pearl white 
finely and coarsely marked with umber or burnt sienna 
brown. The species breeds from northeastern Nebraska, 
southern Mississippi and southeastern New York south to 
the Gulf States. It is very rare in central New York, but 
not altogether so on Long Island. 
The song of the Kentucky Warbler is distinctively musi- 
cal though confined to a series of dissyllabic or else trisyl- 
labic, high, clear whistles, far superior to the tuneless notes 
of the Maryland Yellow-throat. Gerald Thayer writes of 
it, ““ The song is remarkably loud and clear, strikingly simi- 
lar to that of the Carona Wren; a series of three clear 
whistled notes repeated five to ten or more times, éee-wee-o, 
tee-wee-o, tee-wee-o, tee-wee-o,”’ etc. Like the Carolina 
Wren, or the Red-eyed Vireo this Warbler is also a most 
indefatigable singer, with a voice that carries a very con- 
siderable distance. Bradford Torrey describes the song 
“hus: “Klur-wée, klur-wée, klur-wee, klur-wee, klur-wee, a 
succession of clear, sonorous dissyllables, in a fuller voice 
than most warblers possess, and with no flourish before or 
after; like the bird’s dress, it was perfect in its simplicity.” 
Here is the song as I make it on the musical staff, and if 
one will exempt the grace notes from the implication of a 
“flourish,” the notation is evidence of the same kind of 
song as that which Mr. Torrey heard. 
Hiur -wee,klur-wee, klur-wee,kKlur-wee, klur-wee kiur-wee, 
But the syllable klur to my mind rather indicates some- 
thing in the nature of the grace note—in other words a 
double sound which includes a tone with a tonal approach! 
There is no avoiding the impression one gets of the grace 
note, % is present in this Warbler’s song, it is present ip 
