FAMILY Mniotiltidee. 



ends there as the latter never sings exclusively two notes 

 as this bird does. In syllabic form I make the song a 

 drawling Ts-s-s-gee-e-e-e. Compare this with the syllables 

 of the Golden-wing on page 167 and the tonal likeness is 

 apparent. There is little or no difference between Ps and 

 Ts descriptively applied to a bird's song, but the real 

 differentiation shows itself in the Gee-e-e-e, or, it would 

 be as well written, zee-e-e-e, for that note has a buzzing 

 quality, and it is a single note not four notes. Here is a 

 record from Virginia: 



Largo. 



Thrice <Sva. 



^-^y WWWV\ 



mf Sosttnuto 



'Ts-s-s-gee-e-e-e 



Bradford Torrey renders it admirably in the following 

 words : "A song of the oddest and meanest two syllables, 

 the first a mere nothing, and the second a husky drawl, 

 in a voice like the Blue Golden-wing's." A mere nothing? 

 Yes, find it if you can somewhere in the woodwork to the 

 right of highest C on your piano! Mr. Lynes Jones de- 

 scribes another, fuller song of this Warbler by the follow- 

 ing syllables: Wee, chi-chi-chi-chi, chur, chee-chur, but 

 I have no knowledge of it. 



Tennessee 

 Warbler 



Vermivora 

 peregrina 

 L. 4-75 inches 

 May 1 5 th 



The little Tennessee Warbler, one of the 

 smaller birds of the group, is not very com- 

 mon in any part of our northeastern States, 

 yet it is fairly certain a bird student may 

 discover him in any of the townships 

 within the White Mountain region, especially the more 

 northerly ones. The general coloring of the bird is so 

 nearly like that of the Red-eyed Vireo that the first sight 

 of him might prove misleading except for the testimony of 

 the song. Upper parts distinctively olive-green, the head 

 and neck back of the eye bluish gray, a very pronounced 

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