^_ Bird-Song : and New Zealand Song Birds 
evidently in a state of exuberance. The nest observed was 
built m about five days. dS 
The warbler breeds twice in the season, a new nest h»; 
built m September for the second brood; it is in this second 
nest that the cuckoo places her egg,—of which more will h,! 
said m connection with the cuckoo. 
Potts described a third species of warbler in The Ibh IS 79 
(p 225). He spoke of its habitat being unusual,-in the'thick 
bush of Westland, and of its note being new to him He sf 
gested it might be the same bird that Reischek wrote him is 
having met with at Dusky Sound on 2nd July, 1884 He did 
not see this bird but its note was new to him, the call consisting 
of three notes, like di-di-di, repeated several times. It is quite 
possible that these notes were those given in (8) below Thev 
are quite different in quality from the ordinary warbler not J 
el f g T . lst es ratller than tnlls ; they are often sung in threes’ 
and wil! be described later. I have met the ordinary warble; 
both m thick and open bush, and am inclined to suppose, on 
the evidence of the song, that there may be two species. The 
°, ne , lave heard 111 the bush onl y, the other in the open, in the 
bush bb t e n e i f h ° meS ’ and in the sca ttered clumps of Maori 
, ,, Stl11 2 ® ft 111 rou S h g ull ies near cities. The former may 
e e one Duller calls the bush-warbler. 
ih ^^ich is almost always seen in pairs, has, like 
an ai , taken kindly to the coming of civilization, and mav 
Mfl e . ar< Ltrough the greater part of the year, chiefly from 
p ., , ° . 6 ruaiy ’ even i n the environs of the larger towns, 
i S S eU P- 130) of the bird, written long ago, may 
mi a V ° r ^ sma ^ birds have long stood in peril through 
e a eged sms of a few; the warbler, he said, “seems to 
P c a e readily man s ideas as to improving the face of 
•x ^ ’ very little planting or gardening is needed to attract 
iq V seil °e, a brown patch, gorse hedge, or a few blue gums, 
, i U * )on as a card of invitation, and the merry little 
* llla *| 80011 be found quite at home, trilling forth its 
i b aintive note. The fruit growler need not take the 
out this bird, its habit seems purely insectivorous; 
