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26. Dendrceca virens ( Gm .) Bd. Black-throated Green War- 
bler. — An uncommon migrant, first seen on March 13. Found in hard- 
wood growth and never in company with the preceding species. On 
March 25 I heard a male singing the plaintive song so familiar in northern 
woods. 
Bali. N.O.O, 7, Jan, 1882, P.37 
I was attracted once by an odd song that 
I had never heard, which came from far 
back in the woods. I followed the sound 
and discovered its author perched on one 
of the lower limbs of a great pine. The song 
was a mixture of rather sweet and harsh 
notes, very peculiar and as long as a spar- 
rows. I let him sing again and then 
brought him down, and he proved to be 
a Black-th roated Green Warbler in perfect 
plumage. This indeed" was an oddity, for 
the bird’s usual sweet warble was vastly 
different from the notes I had just heard. 
Walking along a meadow-path one evening 
at dusk a Maryland Yellow-throat flew up 
before me, and hovering in the air for a 
moment in the manner of the dancing chat, 
sang a lively rattle-to-bang- kind of song, 
then darted into the bushes and was quiet. ^ ^ , 
Another time I noticed a bird of the same 
species, without any apparent cause or ex- 
citement, suddenly leave the bushes where y— 
he had been singing his usual notes, and. — i ^= 5 - | 
flying twenty or thirty feet into the air, j£- . , ^ c ^ 
almost perpendicularly, sing the same med- 
ly while rising sky-lark fashion. As soon 
as he ceased he came quickly back to earth 
again and hid himself in the bushes. — 8. 
Frank Aaron , Philo,., Pa. . 
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