HOODED WARBLER. 



yellow; lower parts bright lemon yellow of a light tone; 

 bill with bristles at the base. Female similarly marked 

 but the colors dull, and the more restricted hood less 

 sharply defined. Nest in a bush or small tree, and gen- 

 erally situated in a Y fork, a few feet from the ground; 

 it is built of dried leaves, shreds of bark, rootlets, and 

 grasses, and lined with finer material of the same nature. 

 Egg cream white slightly spotted with ruddy brown 

 thicker at the larger end. This bird is distributed 

 through eastern North America as far north as southern 

 Michigan and Ontario in the interior, and to southeast- 

 ern New York and Connecticut on the seaboard; it breeds 

 from the Gulf States north to the limit of the range, and 

 winters in Central America. 



The song of the Hooded Warbler is in no respect like 

 thatjof the Maryland Yellow-throat; it lacks the power- 

 ful accent and the pointed rhythm of that bird's well- 

 known urichity, urichity, etc. The Rev. J. H. Langille 

 describes it in syllables thus: che-ree, cheree, chi-de-ee, 

 and besides, gives another form that the bird sings at 

 night of which I know nothing. Still another form 

 is given by Mr. Jones, but it is evidently not the one 

 which I know, for the syllables will not fit my notations; 

 it runs thus: che-weo-tsip che-we-eo. The music which 

 follows shows two slightly sustained syllables succeeded 

 by about three short and rapid ones, thus: 



Vivace 3 times 8va 



Cheree, cheree, chi-cti-ee. 



There is a drop of the voice at the end of the song which is 

 similar to that in the song of the Chestnut-sided. As I have 

 but this one record of the Hooded Warbler's song, and the 

 bird seems to be so very uncommon as far north as New 

 Jersey, it is impossible to say whether I have caught the 

 typical song or not. Mr. Torrey gives no syllabic form 

 in his writings, as far as my knowledge goes, but reports 

 the bird very common in the country around Chatta- 

 nooga, Tenn. 



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