OVEN-BIRD; "NIGHT-WARBLER" 357 



May 28, 1854. The night-warbler, after his strain, 

 drops down almost perpendicularly into a tree-top and 

 is lost. 



May 29, 1854. Saw what I thought my night-war- 

 bler, — sparrow -like with chestnut (?) stripes on 

 breast, white or whitish below and about eyes, and 

 perhaps chestnut (??) head. 



May 3, 1857. Emerson says that Brewer tells him 

 my " night warbler " is probably the Nashville war- 

 bler. 



May 12, 1857. A night-warbler, plainly light be- 

 neath. It always flies to a new perch immediately after 

 its song. 



May 16, 1858. A golden-crowned thrush hops quite 

 near. It is quite small, about the size of the creeper, 

 with the upper part of its breast thickly and distinctly 

 pencilled with black, a tawny head ; and utters now 

 only a sharp cluck for a chip. See and hear a redstart, 

 the rhythm of whose strain is tse,-tse, tse'-tse, tse', em- 

 phasizing the last syllable of all and not ending with 

 the common tsear. Hear the night-warbler. 



May 17, 1858. Just after hearing my night-warbler 

 I see two birds on a tree. The one which I examined 

 — as well as I could without a glass — had a white 

 throat with a white spot on his wings, was dark above 

 and moved from time to time like a creeper, and it was 

 about the creeper's size. The other bird, which I did 

 not examine particularly, was a little larger and more 

 tawny. 1 



May 19, 1858. Heard the night-warbler begin his 



1 Perhaps golden-crowned thrush. 



