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green-trees, and situated not more than six feet above 

 the ground; it is built of twigs, moss, and rootlets, and 

 lined with fine grasses. Egg white heavily spotted on 

 the larger end with madder brown, cinnamon brown, 

 and olive. The range of the bird is through eastern 

 North America and northward; it breeds from New 

 England northward to Greenland and Alaska, and win- 

 ters in northern South America. 



The Black-poll Warbler has a very thin voice and a 

 monotonous song nearly confined to one tone, and re- 

 sembling the rather more musical effort of the Myrtle 

 Warbler. The notes are slightly characterized by an 

 overtone, but are too stridulent in quality to posses any 

 musical merit. Here is one of the only two records I 



dim.. 



The song begins with a crescendo and a slight diminu- 

 endo almost immediately succeeds. There is another 

 iorm, which tolerably represents the syllables " tsip, tsip, 

 tsip, tsee, tsee, te " of Mr. Lynes Jones. But I can not 

 see that this differs materially from the form given in 

 my first notation : 



This warbler is a distinctive woodland character often 

 heard rather than seen in the forests of the White Moun- 

 tains, and partial to the upper branches of the trees, 

 though he not infrequently visits the ground. My own 

 observations in this respect are sustained by those of Mr. 

 Torrey, who says he saw some feeding upon a lawn for 

 a long time, during his visit to Chattanooga.* 



* Vide Sfrring Notes from Tennessee* page 96. 



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