THE WARBLERS. 
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beautiful leaden color, with bands of black upon the 
lower part of the throat. Most of these may be seen 
for a few weeks early in Spring, but it is difficult to 
distinguish between them, as they often frequent the 
tops of the tallest forest trees ; at other times they 
have been known to enter the city, and hop about 
the shrubbery of the gardens. At the most they 
are only known to us as the transient occupants of 
our fresh-budding groves, the cooler atmosphere of 
the mountains to which they retire, being more con- 
genial, and more favorable for the purposes of incu- 
bation. 
Closely connected with the Wood Warblers, is the 
family of the true Warblers. As an illustration of 
these, let us take the famous Nightingale of Europe, 
whose powerful and melodious voice excites the won- 
der and praise of the listener. That such a long- 
continued succession of loud, clear, and musical notes 
can be produced by a bird of such small dimensions, 
is truly astonishing. It is no less remarkable for the 
great variety in the tones than for their peculiar 
clearness and melody. In order to illustrate this 
point, some writer has attempted to reduce the notes 
to plain English, — a copy of which we here place 
before our readers : 
“ Tiou, tiou, tiou, tiou, — Spe, tiou, squa, — Tio, 
tio, tio, tio, tio, tio, tio, tix, — Coutio, coutio, coutio, 
coutio, — Squo, squo, squo, squo, — Tzu, tzu, tzu, tzu, 
tzu, tzu, tzu, tzu, tzu, tzi, — Corror, tiou, squa, pipiqui, 
— Tozozozozozozozozozozozo, zirrhading ! Tsissisi, 
tsissisisisisisisis, — Dzorre, dzorre, dzorre, dzorre, hi, 
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