TENNESSEE WARBLER. 



whitish line over the eye and a dusky bar through it, the 

 inner webs of the two outer tail feathers margined with 

 white, no wing bars, under parts dull white, the breast 

 often tinged with buffy yellow. Nest on or near the ground 

 usually in dense growths of spruce and fir, or occasionally 

 of mountain ash; it is built of bark fibre, grasses, and moss, 

 lined with hair and soft material. Egg, china white with 

 a wreath of spots about the larger end. The species breeds 

 from southern Mackensie and southern Ungava to Anti- 

 costi Island, and southward to northern Maine, New 

 Hampshire (probably northern New York), Ontario, and 

 Northern Minnesota. 



The song of the little Tennessee is not likely to be con- 

 fused with that of any other Warbler, it has a marked 

 crescendo followed by an equally marked diminuendo: 



'Thrice Qva. 



dim. 



I cannot say exactly that of the others' songs, the Black- 

 poll's excepted; they may be structurally similar to this 

 one which I admit begins like the Nashville's with zig- 

 zagging notes and finishes with according to the popular 

 idea a trill; but there is no trill, the finishing notes are 

 reiterations dropping indefinitely two or three tones. Mr. 

 Farwell's description in Chapman's Warblers of North 

 America is fairly close to my notation if one bears in mind 

 that the Chippy also does not trill but reiterates! He 

 writes of the song that it is "very loud, beginning with a 

 sawing, two-noted trill, rather harsh and very staccato 

 but hesitating in character, increasing to a rapid trill 

 almost exactly like a Chipping Sparrow, a noticeable but 

 not musical song." Like the Black-poll's notes, the first 

 groups of two notes each are deliberately and sharply 

 staccato, while all are delivered crescendo et diminuendo. 

 In The foot-path Way, page 8, Bradford Torrey goes 

 to some length in a word description of the song, and calls 

 it "long, very sprightly, and peculiarly staccato." Then 

 he adds, "As to pitch, the song is in three parts, but as to 

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