IN AUDUBON'S LABRADOR 



heard than seen. One exception should be 

 made to this statement, for two Tennessee 

 warblers came on board the steamer in a fog 

 when I was returning from one of my trips and 

 here they could be watched from a few feet. I 

 find from my notes that in the five days spent 

 at Piashte Bay I did not once succeed in see- 

 ing the bird. On one occasion I followed one 

 about for over half an hour in a low spruce 

 thicket, where it sang frequently and occa- 

 sionally chipped within what seemed to be a 

 few feet of me, but try as I would, I could not 

 get even a momentary glimpse of it. Here at 

 Natashquan the bird was really abundant, and 

 several times it appeared in full sight when it 

 sang. 



Its song is loud and clear, businesslike and 

 unattractive. In its entirety it may be divided 

 into three parts, each part a repetition of 

 similar notes, and it may be expressed as fol- 

 lows: sst, sst, ssi, — twa, twa, twa,- — tsweet, 

 tsweet, tsweet. The third part is sometimes 

 omitted and the first part is rather faint and 

 cannot be heard at a distance; the middle part 

 is at times almost pleasing in its quality and 

 is loud and clear. 



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