FAMILY Mnlotntldae. 



rhythm and character, it is in two." He is quite right if 

 my notations adequately represent the song, and the 

 divisions may easily be recognized by the relative appear- 

 ance of the notes on the staff even by those who may say 

 they do not read music! The Tennessee is really not un- 

 common in the White Mountain region, Mr. Walter Deane 

 reports him as present in Shelburne, in 1918, '19, he has 

 shown himself nearly every June here and there in the 

 northern Pemigewasset Valley of late years, and long ago 

 Bradford Torrey reported him as an old acquaintance in 

 Franconia. But the fact is, one will easily find twenty 

 Xashvilles to a single Tennessee if one starts off on a special 

 hunt for the latter. 



Water-Thrush An interesting little \Varbler with a strong 

 Sieurus preference for the swamp. Its breast is 



novcboracensis . , 



L. 5.80 inches marked with streaky spots 'far less round 

 May loth than those of the \Vood Thrush, and the 



common name arises from a fancied similarity to that bird. 

 Upper parts deep olive-brown, a whitish line over the eye, 

 the under parts yellowish white of a sulphur tinge heavily 

 streaked with sepia-black, no wing-bars, tail an even olive- 

 brown. Nest, mostly of moss held together with tiny ten- 

 drils and rootlets, lodged in a mossy bank, or among the 

 roots of a fallen tree, or at the base of moss-covered logs. 

 Egg, white or buff-white with light-brown markings about 

 the larger end. This species from northern Ontario, 

 Ungava, and Newfoundland south to central Ontario, New 

 York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, and through 

 the mountains to West Virginia. It is a common summer 

 resident of the White, Green, Adirondack, and Catskill 

 mountains, and the swamps in central and western New 

 York. 



The song of the Water-thrush has been called a "wild, 

 ringing roundelay suggestive of the cool, bubbling streams 

 of its summer home." That is an excellent simile, but 

 there is no particular reason why it should not apply as 

 well to the song of any one of the Wrens! The difference 

 between the song of this Warbler and that of the Wren 

 is a fundamental one, the Wren at once approaches a 

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