Dendroioa tigrlna . 
Lake Umbagog, Maine 
Its song. 
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The Cape May Warbler was heard singing about 50 yards 
June 11. from the shore in rather open woods of large spruoes, balsams, 
hemlock, and yellow birches. The song of this Warbler is 
harder - or at least sharper and more penetrating - than that 
of either the Bay-breast or Blackburnian. In these respects 
it resembles the song of Protonotaria but the tone or quality 
is more wiry and, indeed, very close to that of Mniotilta . 
The bird is perhaps the least regular and persistent singer 
of the genus. One can never be sure of finding him in song, 
even in the early morning, and his singing periods are ordi¬ 
narily brief with long intervals of dead silence. The number 
offnotes varies from three to seven. One of the birds estab¬ 
lished in the Staples farm woods just north of Great Island (I 
heard both -f uhese birds singing on the morning of June 12th) 
usually gives only three notes but sometimes raises the num¬ 
ber to five. The other bird ordinarily gives five and some¬ 
times six. The bird near the Brown farm east of Lakeside 
habitually has seven 
This was on Great Island. 
