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pitch as the first notes. It might be written " swee-swee-swee-swee- 

 te-te-te-swee." 



The majority of Yellow Warbler nests are placed in elder bushes 

 four or five feet from the ground. I have occasionally found them 

 lower than this in a wild rose, or as high as ten feet in a small elm 

 tree. The nest is woven into a crotch, and made mostly of plant 

 fibres of a silvery whitish color. The four or five creamy white 

 eggs are beautifully wreathed with dark spots about the larger end. 



Veery; Wilson's Thrush. Hylocichla fuscescens fuscescens 

 (Steph.) 



The Veery may be distinguished from the other thrushes by the 

 uniform light tawny brown of the upper parts and the faint light 

 brown spots on the nearly white breast and throat. The spots of 

 the breast are so light as to be invisible a short distance away, and 

 the bird in the dim light of a dense thicket appears to be pure white 

 and unspotted beneath. 



It is fairly common in the denser and more wooded stream 

 borders of the Park, living in somewhat swampy woods or willow 

 thickets. Unlike the other thrushes it is not found in the hillside 

 forests, except where there are streams. It is quite common about 

 Frecks and at other points in the Park characterized by lowland 

 thickets. 



The Veery is a beautiful singer, with a song quite unlike those 

 of the other Thrushes. It consists of four to six phrases repeated 

 rapidly " wrreeo-wrreeo, wrreeo, wrreeo," each phrase descending in 

 pitch, the latter phrases beginning and, ending on slightly lower 

 pitches than the first. There is an unusual, weird, resonant quality 

 to the song that gives it much of its charm. This bird sings less 

 frequently than the other Thrushes and ceases earlier in the summer. 

 After the song period it may be found by its call note, a short 

 " wheo," which when imitated successfully will often bring the bird 

 near enough for observation. 



The nest is placed on the ground in wet woods or thickets, in or 

 under a tuft of grass, or in a clump of ferns or some similar situa- 

 tion. The nest is attractive looking, woven of strips of bark and 

 leaves, and containing three or four deep greenish blue, unspotted 

 eggs. 



Canada Warbler. Wilsonia canadensis (Linn.) 



The beautiful little Canada Warbler differs from most of the other 

 yellow-breasted Warblers in that the color of the upper parts is 

 bluish gray and not olive. The bright yellow under parts are 

 crossed on the lower throat by a band of black streaks, arranged like a 

 necklace. The yellow extends upward on the side of the head to 

 form a ring around the eye. The forehead of the male is spotted with 

 black, and the black necklace of the female is fainter and less easily 

 perceived than that of the male. 



This bird is well distributed in the Park, but not especially common 

 anywhere. I met with-it most often in the thickets along Quaker 



