HOODED WARBLER 



April 1 6, 1895 

 (Georgia) 



I FOLLOWED the loud song of this 

 warbler for a long time in the thick 

 woods this morning before I discovered 

 what bird it came from. It was a vigor- 

 ous, rather short warbler song, sounding 

 like the syllables in "Yes, yes, yes, I know 

 it," with an upward inflection on the "I 

 know." There were a number of these 

 warblers in the woods but I only saw two. 

 The song of the second was longer, and 

 not so marked in its inflections, so that I 

 did not recognize it as coming from the 

 same species till I saw the bird. This is 

 certainly one of the most striking of the 

 warblers. The black hood, extending 

 round both front and back of the neck and 

 the back part of the head, encircles the 

 brilliant yellow of the forehead and the 

 part around the eye. The contrast makes 

 the yellow appear more gorgeous than al- 

 most any other bit of warbler coloring, 

 except, perhaps, the throat of Blackburn's 

 warbler. 



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