. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America . ough its song be short, it is at the same time sweet andmellow. The principal range of this daintily dressed songster is throughthe southwestern division of this Eastern Province, between thevalley of the Mississippi and the Alleghanian hills, north to Ohio(where it is abundant), southern Ontario, Indiana, and occasionally wanders eastward to central New York, RhodeIsland, and Connecticut. Nuttall copied Audubon when characterizing the song of thisspecies as sweet and mellow. Wilson, who discovered the bird and name
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America . ough its song be short, it is at the same time sweet andmellow. The principal range of this daintily dressed songster is throughthe southwestern division of this Eastern Province, between thevalley of the Mississippi and the Alleghanian hills, north to Ohio(where it is abundant), southern Ontario, Indiana, and occasionally wanders eastward to central New York, RhodeIsland, and Connecticut. Nuttall copied Audubon when characterizing the song of thisspecies as sweet and mellow. Wilson, who discovered the bird and named it the Blue-greenWarbler, described the note as a feeble chirp. Between theopposed opinions of these fathers of American ornithology comesthe report of a recent observer, Mr. William Brewster, who foundthe species abundant in West Virginia. ■ At best it is a modestlittle strain, and far from deserving the encomium passed upon itby Audubon ; and again, The song is a guttral trill much likethat of the Blue Yellow-backed Warbler. ^^Jk -l>4- x*|-/l ,>Sfe--. MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT. Geothlvpis trichas. Char. Above, olive, duller on the head, brighter on rump; fore-head and broad band on side of head black, with whitish border; beneathrich yellow, paler on the belly. Length 4}^ to 5J4 inches. jVts/. Hidden by tuft of grass, or amid thicket of briers, usually in amoist woodland or on border of swamp , composedexteriorly of looselylaid grass, twigs, etc., lined with fine grass compactly woven. £j^£s. 4-6; white, sometimes creamy, spotted around larger end withbrown and lilac ; often a few black spots and lines ; X This cotnmon and familiar species extends its summer mi-grations from Florida to Nova Scotia, arriving in Pennsylvaniatowards the middle of April, and in this part of New Englandabout the first week in May. The majority return to the Southin September : a few stragglers of the young, however, may beseen to the first week in October, and though some may r
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