APPENDIX. 157 



YELLOW WARBLER AND GOLDFINCH. Contin. 



in its billowy flight, is one of the most delicious of rural sounds. But in 

 spring the male has a love-song excelled by few other birds. It is ' sweet, 

 brilliant and pleasing . . . now ringing like the loud voice of the canary, 

 now sinking into a soft warble/" Ingersoll, E., and others: Habits of 

 Animals. 



Chestnut-sided Warbler. (See notation on p. 49.) 



[The song of the chestnut-sided warbler] "is attractive and musical, 

 though containing but a few simple notes. One variation resembles the 

 syllables wee-see-wee-see-wee-see (each of which is higher than the 

 preceding, except the sixth, which is lower than the fifth). The other 

 common variation is almost exactly like the song of the little yellow- 

 bird, and consequently like that of various other warblers." Minot, 

 H. D.: Land-birds and Game-birds of N. E., p. 108. 



See Luiit, H. : Across Lots, p. 122. 



Mr. Burroughs describes the song of the chestnut-sided warbler as 

 " fine and hurried." 



Black-throated Green Warbler. (See p. 48.) 



" This song is something like the syllables ta-te-te-it-ta-tee, uttered in a 

 plaintive tone, the first syllable low, the second higher, the third and 

 fourth quickly together and high, and the fifth and sixth a little slower 

 and lower. Its song is peculiar, and cannot be confounded with that of 

 any other warbler in New England." Samuels, E. A. : Our Northern and 

 Eastern Birds, p. 224. 



"The ordinary notes of the 'black-throated greens' are numerous, 

 being a tsip, a chick, which is sometimes soft and sometimes loud, a check, 

 a chuck, which is used chiefly as a note of alarm, and a sharp chink, which 

 is generally indicative of distress. Their song has several variations, of 

 which the two most often heard are wee-see-wee'-see-wee'-see (in which the 

 middle notes are the highest) and wee-see-wee-see-see (in which the second 

 note is higher than the rest, the second couplet uttered in a lively way, 

 and the other notes drawled out in a manner peculiar to this species). 

 To these simple chants a few terminal notes are not infrequently added, 

 which sometimes consist of a repetition, and rarely resemble those of 

 the ' black-throated blue's ' music. These songs are very characteristic ; 

 and if one has once heard them, he cannot often confound them with 

 those of other birds." Minot, H. D.: Land-birds and Game-birds of N. E., 

 p. 119. 



