KENTUCKY WARBLER. 



clothed in the best of taste, with nothing patchy, nothing 

 fantastic or even fanciful." The large nest is built of 

 twigs, rootlets, and dried leaves, lined with fine rootlets 

 and horsehairs; it is placed directly upon the ground or 

 in the shrubbery near to it. Egg, china or pearl white 

 finely and coarsely marked with umber or burnt sienna 

 brown. The species breeds from northeastern Nebraska, 

 southern Mississippi and southeastern New York south to 

 the Gulf States. It is very rare in central New York, but 

 not altogether so on Long Island. 



The song of the Kentucky Warbler is distinctively musi- 

 cal though confined to a series of dissyllabic or else trisyl- 

 labic, high, clear whistles, far superior to the tuneless notes 

 of the Maryland Yellow-throat. Gerald Thayer writes of 

 it, "The song is remarkably loud and clear, strikingly simi- 

 lar to that of the Carolina Wren; a series of three clear 

 whistled notes repeated five to ten or more times, tee-wee-o, 

 tee-wee-o, tee-wee-o, tee-wee-o," etc. Like the Carolina 

 Wren, or the Red-eyed Vireo this Warbler is also a most 

 indefatigable singer, with a voice that carries a very con- 

 siderable distance. Bradford Torrey describes the song 

 thus: "Klur-wee, klur-wee, klur-wee, klur-wee, klur-wee, a 

 succession of clear, sonorous dissyllables, in a fuller voice 

 than most warblers possess, and with no flourish before or 

 after; like the bird's dress, it was perfect in its simplicity. 1 ' 

 Here is the song as I make it on the musical staff, and if 

 one will exempt the grace notes from the implication of a 

 "flourish," the notation is evidence of the same kind of 

 song as that which Mr. Torrey heard. 



Vivaee Thrice 





But the syllable klur to my mind rather indicates some- 

 thing in the nature of the grace note in other words a 

 double sound which includes a tone with a tonal approach ! 

 There is no avoiding the impression one gets of the grace 

 note, it is present, in this Warbler's song, it is present in 



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