NORTHERN PARULA WARBLER. 



In every case the Nashville accents (i. e., goes lame- 

 legged on) one or the other of his slurred notes, and that 

 ought to be a very strong point in the identification of 

 the song, regardless of its unique dual character. Minot 

 evidently heard the accent on the first syllable instead 

 of the second, for he writes it: " Wee' -see, wee'-see,wit-a- 

 wit-a-wit" I remember hearing my friend Prof. J. B. 

 Sharland tell his quartette to sing the notes in the open- 

 ing bars of Rossini's Carnovale, as they were written, 

 " lame-legged," thus: 



Rossini. 



We dr? beggars strucknith blindnessJLivmg on the rich nun's kindness. 

 The rhythm is exactly that of the Nashville's song! 



Northern Pa- This tiny jewellike Warbler is locally 

 '0^"?*" common in New Engiand- He is fre- 

 americana quently called the Blue Yellow-backed 

 usnece Warbler. His colors are a rather ex- 



L. 4-72 inches traordinary combination of aesthetic tones. 

 May loth Crown gray-blue; upper parts blue-gray, 



but middle of the back bright greenish yellow forming a 

 definite patch; black-gray in front of the eye; two white 

 wing-bars; outer tail feathers white-patched near the 

 tip; throat and breast yellow, the latter marked with 

 a burnt sienna or chestnut band in spots, the color ex- 

 tending to the throat, sides brownish gray. Female 

 similarly colored, but the chestnut necklace generally 

 absent. Nest built of moss, lichens, dead leaves, and 

 bits of twigs; it is generally constructed (at least in 

 mountain regions where such material is plenty) of the 

 long, stringy moss known as usnea, which is commonly 

 found suspended from the dead under-limbs of spruces 

 and firs. Egg white with chestnut speckles thickest at 

 the larger end. The bird is distributed throughout North 

 America as far north as Canada; it breeds locally in New 

 England, New York, and the States on the northern 



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