REDSTART 



May is, 1893 

 May, 18Q4 

 May 7, 1895 

 April so, i8q6 

 May 9, 1897 



THE redstart is supposed to nest here 

 but I seldom see it in summer, though 

 it is always a common migrant in the 

 spring. It always seems as if there were 

 so many miniature males and females in 

 proportion to the brilliant old male birds. 

 The song is very like many of the other 

 warbler songs (how confusing they are!) 

 but it is apt to end its zie-zie-zie with a 

 break at the end, giving it a sharp, unfin- 

 ished sort of termination. Sometimes they 

 sing as a black and white creeper does, a 

 sort of saw filing, but not so thin in quality. 



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