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sound exactly like, Quirpt chuck! cop! chock! charr! 

 etc. These it is risky to place on the staff lest one 

 should be led to think they were really musical tones. 

 They are simply indescribable noises, that is all. Mr. 

 Scott's remarks on the subject are quite to the point; he 

 says, "such a mixture of curious notes is poured out as 

 has no kind of parallel in our bird acquaintance. This 

 is no soft melody that one has to be near to hear, but a 

 series of loud, jerky, detached notes, now whistles, now 

 chucks, and again croaks and chuckles that defy imitu 

 tion, musical or otherwise." I might add that the bird 

 frequently gives a number of clear whistles of accurate 

 pitch; but these, though I place them on the staff, must 

 prove to be such fragmentary bits of the song that it 

 would be useless to depend upon them for purposes of 

 identification. The fact is the Chat may be consider. ] 

 a mere chatterer whose flippant conversation is carried 

 on in a series of grotesque syllables alternating with a 

 few clearly whistled staccato tones, thus: 



rrrr 



op! cop! cop! charr! 



Cop! cop! cop! charr! chdck! quirp, quirp, cop! co-o-o-o -o-of 



Hooded The Hooded Warbler, who in effect of 



Warbler coloring is almost exactly the reverse of 



Strata the Maryland Yellow-throat, is so con- 



L. 5.60 inches spicuously marked that he can not fail 

 May i s th to attract attention. His general appear- 

 ance, in character at least, is so similar to that of the 

 other bird that one is surprised to find the ornithologist's 

 classification separates them by interposing the Chat. 

 This Warbler's colors are yellow and olive accented by a 

 jet black hood over the head, throat, and neck. Fore- 

 head and cheeks bright yellow; crown black with a 

 bandiike connection at the neck with tlie black throat; 

 upper parts including the wings and tail olive green ; no 

 wing-bars; the inner vanes of the outer tail feathers pale 

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