THE WORM-EATING WARBLER. 



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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 himself 

 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 

 Sparro\v. So 

 close is the re- 

 semblance that 

 one is almost 

 sure to be de- 

 ceived by them 

 the first time ; 

 but closer at- 

 t e n t i o n dis- 

 closes their 

 more rapid ut- 

 t e r a n c e and 

 somewhat finer 

 quality. One in- 

 dividual heard 

 near Sugar 

 Grove wound 

 up his trill with 

 an odd musical 

 quirk quite out 



f character, 

 and which he 

 had borrowed, 



1 fancy, from a 

 Hooded War- 

 bler nesting 



near. Taken in Morgan county. Photo by the Author. 



THE HAUNT OF THE WORM-EATING WARBLER. 



