158 WOOD NOTES WILD. 
BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER. — Contin. 
See Lunt, H.: Across Lots, p. 72. 
Nuttall describes the black-throat’s song as a “ quaint and indolent ditty.” 
For a pleasant chat about the warblers see Amory, Catherine: Birds 
in Wood and Field. (Swiss Cross, vol. iv., 1888, no. 6, p. 162.) 
Redstart. (See p. 51.) 
Mr. Cheney was taking his bird-songs at Lynn and 
Franklin while Mr. Nelson was making observations at 
Worcester, and their reports—though neither knew of 
the existence of the other — are even nearer together than 
the localities where they were engaged.! Mr. Nelson de- 
scribes the redstart’s song as “much resembling that of 
the yellow warbler, though considerably shorter and 
weaker.” 
“The song of the redstart is simple and pleasing, but constantly varied. 
Sometimes it is merely a rather shrill che-wée-o or che-wee-o-wée-o, at other 
times it is che-wée-see-wée-see-wée, or a soft wée-see-wée-see-wee, much like 
the song of the yellow-bird (D. estiva), and again a series or repetition 
of a few gentle notes, which form an indefinite song.” — Minot, H. D.: 
Land-birds and Game-birds of N. E., p. 131. 
“Nuttall’s description of the movements of this brisk 
bird sounds like one of the happier passages of Homer: 
“He does not, like the loitering pewee, wait the accidental 
approach of the insect prey ; but carrying the war amongst 
them, he is seen flitting from bough to bough, or at times pur- 
suing the flying troop of winged insects from the top of the 
tallest tree in a zig-zag, hawk-like, descending flight, to the 
ground, while the clicking of the bill declares distinctly both 
his object and success.” 
See also Lunt, H.: Across Lots, p. 103. 
1 For another instance of close agreement with a second reporter see 
Index, Wood Thrush. 
