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NASHVILLE WARBLER. 
These notes very much resembled the breaking of small dry 
twigs, or the striking of small pebbles of different sizes 
smartly against each other for six or seven times, and loud 
enough to be heard at the distance of thirty or forty yards. 
It was some time before I could ascertain whether the sound 
proceeded from a bird or an insect. At length I discovered 
the bird, and was not a little gratified at finding it an entire 
new and hitherto undescribed species. I was also fortunate 
enough to meet afterwards with two others exactly correspond- 
ing with the first, all of them being males. These were shot 
in the state of Tennesee, not far from Nashville. It had all 
the agility and active habits of its family, the Worm-eaters. 
The length of this species is four inches and a half, breadth, 
seven inches; the upper parts of the head and neck, light 
ash, a little inclining to olive; crown, spotted with deep 
chestnut in small touches; a pale yellowish ring round the 
eye; whole lower parts, vivid yellow, except the middle of 
the belly, which is white ; back, yellow olive, slightly skirted 
with ash; rump and tail-coverts, rich yellow olive; wings, 
nearly black, broadly edged with olive ; tail, slightly forked, 
and very dark olive; legs, ash; feet, dirty yellow; bill, 
tapering to a fine point, and dusky ash ; no white on wings or 
tail; eye, hazel. 
seems very rare ; Wilson saw only three ; Audubon, three or four ; and a single 
individual was shot by the overland arctic expedition. “ The latter was killed 
hopping about the branches of a tree, and emitting a creaking noise something 
like the whetting of a saw.” The nest does not yet seem to be known — En. 
END OF VOLUME FIRST. 
EDINBURGH: 
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