Dusky, Gray, and Slate-colored 
Minnesota and Michigan. Laurel thickets and moist undergrowth 
of woods in the United States, and more commonly pine woods 
in Canada, are the favorite nesting haunts. A sharp [ip, [ip, 
like some midsummer insect’s noise, is the bird’s call-note, but its 
love-song, [ee, [ee, [ee, or twee, twea, twea-e-e, as one authority 
writes it, is only rarely heard in the migrations. It is a languid, 
drawling little strain, with an upward slide that is easily drowned 
in the full bird chorus of May. 
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