﻿A Brief General Classification 65 



Yellow -throated, Sycamore* (?) , Pine, Prairie, Kentucky, Mourning, all 

 three Yellow-throats ; Hooded, Wilson's, Canada. 



II. Warblers with at least two main songs : Fifteen — Black-and- White, 

 Nashville, Cape May, Yellow, Yellow-rump, Black-and-Yellow, Chest- 

 nut-side, Bay-breast, Blackburnian, Black-throated Green (Palm ?), Yel- 

 low Palm, Ovenbird, Northern Water-Thrush, Louisiana Water-Thrush, 

 Connecticut*. 



III. Warblers with at least three main songs: Three — Blue-winged, 

 (Parula ?), Northern Parula, American Redstart. 



IV. With at least four main songs : One — Black-throated Blue. 



V. Warblers with flight -songs : Ten — Nashville, Ovenbird, Northern 

 Water-thrush, Louisiana Water-thrush, Mourning, all three Yellow- 

 throats, Yellow -breasted Chat, Wilson's*. (It is notable that these are all 

 birds of the ground and low growth. Tree-top Warblers are more versatile 

 perch-singers, on the whole, but few or none of them have flight-songs. 

 Living high above the ground, they lack, it seems, the common impulse to 

 'tower' skyward, by which so many ground-birds, — Larks, Pipits, Spar- 

 rows, Warblers, etc., — are at times possessed). 



VI. Warblers whose usual song is a trill, or barely more than a trill: Five 

 — Worm-eating, Yellow-rump, Pine, Palm, Yellow Palm. 



VII. Warblers with very loud songs: Twelve — Prothonotary, Swain- 

 son's*, Yellow-rump (?), Yellow-throated, Sycamore*, Ovenbird, North- 

 ern Water-thrush, Louisiana Water-thrush; Kentucky, Connecticut*, 

 Mourning; Yellow -breasted Chat. (These too, — with others of nearly as 

 high rank, like the Hooded, the Canada, and the Yellow-throats, — are 

 mostly haunters of the ground and bushes. The tree Warblers excel them 

 in variety of song-forms, but average weak-voiced. 



VIII. Warblers whose songs are very clearly enunciated throughout, or have 

 certain syllables strongly emphasized : Twenty-six — Prothonotary, Swain- 

 son's* (?), Blue-winged (in part), Golden-winged*, Yellow, Black- 

 throated Blue, Black-and-Yellow, Chestnut-side, Blackburnian (in part), 

 Yellow-throated, Sycamore* (?), Black -throated Green, Prairie; Oven- 

 bird, both Water-thrushes (though their songs are almost too hurried to 

 belong under this head), Kentucky, Connecticut*, Mourning, all three 

 Yellow-throats, Yellow-breasted Chat; Hooded, Canada; American 

 Redstart. 



IX. Warblers whose songs are comparatively inarticulate : Nineteen — 

 Black-and-White, Worm-eating, Bachman's* (?.), Blue-winged (in part), 

 Nashville, Orange-crowned*( ?) , Tennessee, Parula, Northern Parula, 

 Cape May, Yellow-rump, Cerulean, Bay-breast, Black-poll, Blackburnian 

 (in part), Pine, Palm, Yellow Palm, Wilson's. 



