TENNESSEE WARBLER 



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The Bird and its Haunts. — The Tennessee Warbler awaits a 

 biographer. We know that generally it is rather rare in spring but 

 sometimes not uncommon in fall, and that during its migrations it is 

 associated with other arboreal Warblers. 



In the summer Maynard 1 found it to be very common in wooded 

 localities about Umbagog, the male, while singing being perched on 

 some high dead branch. Faxon 4 who found a singing male of this 

 species in a "thick growth of black spruce, balsam fir, and mountain 

 ash" on Graylock Peak, Mass., on July 15,1888, quotes Brewster as 

 saying that he found it "in a white spruce and larch swamp in 

 Anticosti" and that at Lake Umbagog he observed it in "larch swamps, 

 hut sometimes on mountain sides — always among coniferous trees." 

 Merriam 2 , however, writes that in the Adirondack region it "generally 

 prefers hardwood areas." 



In British Columbia Brooks, as recorded by Norris 5 , found the 

 bird breeding in "clumps of aspen trees and Norway pines, where the 

 ground was covered with a thick growth of dry pine grass." 



About Monadnock, Gerald Thayer writes that the Tennessee 

 Warbler is "very rare, and seemingly irregular. It haunts blossoming 

 apple trees, big elms, and roadside copses of mixed deciduous second 

 growth. This most un-warbler-colored little Warbler seems to have 

 pretty nearly the same general habits and demeanor as the nervous, 

 yellow-breasted Nashville, — though it is perhaps a little less restless, 

 — and the only one of its call-notes I have heard is almost exactly 

 like the Nashville's least peculiar call." {Thayer, MS.) 



Song. — "Its song begins with a note like chipiti, chipiti repeated a 

 dozen or more times, with increasing rapidity, then suddenly changed 

 into a mere twitter." (Seton 1 .) 



"Often sings in migration a very loud song, beginning with a 

 sawing two-noted trill, rather harsh and very staccato, but hesitating 



