Warbler, Parula or Blue Yellow-Backed 



The song comes to me from amid the top branches of 

 tall trees, birch and poplar. It is an attractive song, 

 though it has little theme merely a rapid trill of some 

 twenty sibilant notes delivered with a rising inflection; 

 but the tones are sweet, and the effect is pleasing. The 

 song is clearly an outburst of joyous emotion. 



Nuttall's Ornithology. 26 



Hoffman likens the song to the winding up of a little 

 watch. 



WARBLER, PINE. PINE CREEPER 



Here is a warbler, let it be recorded, that is fittingly 



named, for it is a denizen of pine woods only 



Its song recalls that of the junco and the chippy. 



NELTJE BLANCHAN. Bird Neighbors. 23 



Whoever has found it in its summer resorts will there- 

 after always associate its simple, sweet, and drowsy song 

 with the smell of pines in a sultry day. 



PARKHURST. The Birds' Calendar. 31 



They have always seemed to me quiet and rather indo- 

 lent, and remarkably attentive to their dress. I have 

 sometimes seen them pause, for at least fifteen minutes, 

 to smooth their feathers or to rest, every minute " drawling 

 out" their sweet note quite mechanically. At other times 

 they are very active, and it is then impossible to keep 

 sight of them for any great length of time. 



MINOT. Land and Game Birds. 20 



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