CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER. 



era that the song nearly always ends with a, falling 

 inflection of the voice. Mr. White records a falsetto 

 warble, purr-a-e whu-a which I have never heard. 



The Magnolia's summer home is among the evergreen- 

 trees, and he may easily be found among the firs and 

 hemlocks of old overgrown pastures, ever on the move* 

 and seldom flying higher than the top of one's head. 

 Thfe species is a regular summer resident in parts of the 

 White Mountains. 



Chestnut-sided This handsome little bird is one of our 

 Warbler commonest Warblers, and next to the 



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pensylvanica Yellow Warbler the most familiar and m- 

 L. 5.10 inches teresting one though he is by no means as 

 May 8th musical as the Black-throated Green. He 



is quickly identified by his costume. Top of head bright 

 yellow bordered on the sides with black; a band of black, 

 beginning between the eye and the bill, extends down- 

 ward on either side of the throat; the sides of the face, 

 the throat, and under parts are white; sides burnt sienna 

 or chestnut; back of the neck streaked with black and 

 gray; lower back black striped with greenish yellow; 

 wings with two yellow-white bars; tail black with the 

 inner vanes of the outer feathers white-patched near the 

 tip. Female similar in markings but duller in color. 

 Nest usually in a low bush; it is built of plant fibre, 

 bark, rootlets, and leaf stems, and lined with finer ma- 

 terial of the same nature. Egg white marked with 

 cinnamon brown and olive brown mainly at the larger 

 end. This bird is distributed through eastern North 

 America as far north as Newfoundland and Manitoba. 

 It breeds from northern New Jersey and Illinois north- 

 ward, and along the Alleghanies south to South Carolina; 

 it winters in Central America. Its chosen haunts are the 

 overgrown pasture where bushes are plenty, bushy road- 

 sides, the borders of woodlands. 



The Chestnut-sided Warbler has several forms of song, 

 and it requires a discriminating ear to distinguish one 

 of the commonest from that of the Yellow Warbler, the 

 notation of which I have marked No. 2. But a careful 

 comparison of these songs will show that there is no 



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