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NASHVILLE WARBLER 



Miss Paddock sends six renderings of the Nashville's song and 

 writes: "The first half of the Nashville's song is sibilant, the last half 

 is a twitter. I cannot agree with Mr. Matthews that the first part is 

 always 'lame-legged', though it is often so." 



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"A very peculiar song, unlike the usual quality, and in leisurely 

 fashion, ran as follows: The tempo was regular and all the notes 

 seemed to utter the syllables chip, chip, chip." 



Nesting Site. The nest is apparently always placed on the 

 ground, the character of the situation being indicated by the following 

 quotations: "the side of a knoll well concealed by brakes and brush. 

 * * * on the roots of a small bush that grew from the side of a 

 knoll" (Morrell*) ; "under a shrub or tree much after the fashion of 

 the Black and White Warbler" (Bowles*) ; "the nests I have found 

 have uniformly been in the side of sphagnum tussocks, and well 

 sunken out of sight from above, so that one must stoop to look into 

 them" (Preston 2 ). Nests found by Spaulding at Lancaster, N. IT., 

 were in the side of grassy knolls. 



