NASHVILLE WARBLER. 



Nashville This delightful little Warbler with a 



Warbler jolly song and engaging, cheerful man- 



Helminthro- ne rs, is measurably common throughout 



^Mcapitta New York and New En S land - His color - 

 L. 4.75 inches ing is as refined as that of the Golden- 

 May 8th wing, though it is a little more pronounced 

 in effect. The top and sides of head blue-gray; beneath 

 the crown-feathers in partial concealment is a patch 

 of burnt sienna or chestnut feathers; upper parts 

 olive green; no wing-bars; lower parts beautifully 

 graded from pale cadmium yellow to yellow- white; 

 wings and tail edged with clear olive green. Female 

 similarly colored but the yellow not quite so bright. 

 Nest on the ground in brushy pastures or sparse woods; 

 it is built of plant fibres, moss, and rootlets, and lined 

 with finer material of the same nature. Egg white pro- 

 fusely speckled with red-brown especially at the larger 

 end. The bird is distributed throughout eastern North 

 America; it breeds from Connecticut northward, and 

 winters in Central America. Its favorite haunts are the 

 half overgrown pasture, or open woodland where the 

 trees are mostly very young. I recollect spending an 

 hour of the early morning, on the twenty-second of 

 May last, in the hilly pasture of the Davis place, Camp- 

 ton, watching no less than fifteen Nashville Warblers 

 joyously chasing each other about among the tops of the 

 young spruces and firs, and singing incessantly while on 

 the wing. 



The song of the Nashville is a delightfully typical 

 one with little or no rhythmic variation so far as my 

 knowledge extends. Few could fail to recognize its 

 stereotyped character after once having had that fully 

 explained to them. Those who can depend upon time 

 beats for the recognition of a bird's song will experience 

 no difficulty with the well-accented music of the Nash- 

 ville. I have already represented the song by dots in 

 the Musical Key ; it is a bit of rhythm that skips along 

 in a most lively fashion and ends with a ripple ! Ex- 

 pressed by dots, it should appear thus: 



or, if one prefers syllables, thus: Te-dum', te-dum', tc-dum' t 

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