THE WORM-EATING WARBLER. 119 
The nest consists of a copious swathing of bark-strips and dead leaves, 
open at the top or side, according to the nature of the ground, and carefully 
lined with fine grass, hair, or moss. 
Upon one occasion only does the Worm-eating Warbler avail himselt 
freely of the more elevated perches which his forest home affords. In 
singing the bird 
mounts a limb 
twenty or thirty 
feet high and 
pours forth a 
torrent of notes 
not unlike those 
of the Chipping 
Sparrow. So 
close is the re- 
semblance that 
one is almost 
sure to be de- 
ceived by them 
the first time; 
but closer at- 
tention dis- 
CONES  Waebe 
more rapid ut- 
terance and 
somewhat finer 
quality. One in- 
dividual heard 
meaL ols a tr 
Grove wound 
up his trill with 
an odd musical 
quirk quite out 
of character, 
and which he 
had borrowed, 
I faney, from a 
Ho« ded War- 
bler nesting 
near. Taken in Morgan county. Photo by the Author. 
THE HAUNT OF THE WORM-EATING WARBLER, 
