Bird Observations 



notes without the third quite often. It is a 

 remarkable song, heard at a long distance, 

 but seldom uttered. It is a more vigorous 

 and resonant song, than the yellow- 

 throat's, but the form of it very similar. 

 It is a hard bird to see, for though it al- 

 lows you to come quite close it keeps con- 

 stantly in the thick foliage, usually in 

 hedges, or the lower part of spruces. 



May 17. Have heard it again. On 

 more familiar acquaintance it sounds more 

 like "too-too-whit" than the syllables of 

 the yellow-throat. Mrs. Hubbard is with 

 me today, and has heard it too. 



May, 1897. A fine study of the bird, 

 the best I ever had. How loud and strik- 

 ing the song is ! It seems less and less like 

 the yellow-throat's. He shakes his little 

 body all over when he sings, wings and tail 

 vibrate furiously, and he throws his head 

 away back. He sings from a low branch 

 and then dives down into a thicket and is 

 quiet for a time. 



May 23, 1907. A Connecticut warbler 

 stayed in the thicket south of our library 

 window for a long time. I watched him 

 through the long field glass. He stood 

 for some minutes motionless on the 

 ground, evidently watching some other 



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