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it will be B6en, exactly lit my notation: consequently, 1 

 suspect tin- bird has few if any variations to his song. 

 Mr. Minot describes a form by syllables which may be 

 slightly different: " wee-see-wee-see, tsee-see, tsee, tsee, 

 tsee-see tsee, tsee, 11 but it is perhaps only a double form, 

 if I read the two hyphened syllables tsee-see aright; 

 naturally, I take them to be given quicker than the 

 others. 



Black-throated This is one of our commoner Warblers, 

 Green Warbler and fe n dd h fi fc { (>f t| 



Dendroica 



virens whole group. At best his song is exceed* 



L. 5. 10 inches ingly brief and high-pitched, and his 

 May 5th voice is thin; but one entertains little 



doubt about his intervals; they are tolerably good, and 

 greatly help to make the well-marked rhythm attractive. 

 The bird is also beautifully colored. Top of head and 

 region nearly down to the shoulders yellow-green: 

 over the eye, the sides of the face and neck bright yel- 

 low; back olive green rarely black-spotted; ear-coverts 

 dusky yellow; throat and breast jet black; two white 

 wing-bars on each wing; the inner vanes of outer tail 

 feathers entirely white, the outer web with a white 

 base; under parts white sometimes suffused with pale 

 yellow. Female similarly marked but the black largely 

 reduced by yellow and rendered dusky. Nest in ever- 

 green-trees and situated from ten to forty feet above the 

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

 grasses, and lined with finer material of the same 

 nature. Egg white spotted with umber and olive 

 mostly at the larger end. The bird is distributed 

 throughout eastern North America; it breeds from 

 Connecticut north to Hudson's Bay, and at high eleva- 

 tions of the Alleghanies south to South Carolina. Its 

 favorite tree is the pine, although it may be found in the 

 deciduous woods quite frequently. 



The song of the Black-throated Green Warbler is dis- 

 tinguished for its suggestive rhythm and its deliberate 

 tempo. This bird is not in such a hurry as the others of 

 the family, and his voice \ the pleasing variety 



of contrast in tone. Of the usual five notes which he 

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