. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . is uttered with a strong aspira-tion, and the remainder with a guttural echo. While thus engaged, his headand tail are alternately depressed and elevated, as if the little odd performerwere fixed on a pivot. Sometimes the note varies to tschip, tschip, tshia,dh, dh, dh, dh, the latter part being a pleasant trill. When approached too closely, which not often happened, as he permittedme to come within two or three feet of his station, his song becomes harshand more hurried, like tship, da, da, da, and de, de
. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . is uttered with a strong aspira-tion, and the remainder with a guttural echo. While thus engaged, his headand tail are alternately depressed and elevated, as if the little odd performerwere fixed on a pivot. Sometimes the note varies to tschip, tschip, tshia,dh, dh, dh, dh, the latter part being a pleasant trill. When approached too closely, which not often happened, as he permittedme to come within two or three feet of his station, his song becomes harshand more hurried, like tship, da, da, da, and de, de, de, de, d, d, dh, or tshe,de, de, de, de, rising into an angry petulant cry, which is also sometimes alow hoarse and scolding daigh, daigh. Then again on invading the nest,the sound sinks to a plaintive tsh, tship, tsh, tship. In the early part ofthe breeding season, the male is very lively and musical, and in his besthumour he tunes up a tship, tship, tship, a dee, with a pleasantly warbledand reiterated de. At a later period, another male uttered little else than a X°23. PL 12 4. / Li<ii (v,:n.,»vi, Lhiind; SHORT-BILLED MARSH WREN. 139 hoarse and guttural daigh, hardly louder than the croaking of a frog. Whenapproached, they repeatedly descend into the grass, where they spend muchof their time, in quest of insects, chiefly crustaceous, which, with moths,constitute their principal food. Here unseen they still sedulously utter theirquaint warbling; and tship, tship, a day, day, day, day, may, for about amonth from their arrival, be heard pleasantly echoing on a fine morning, fromthe borders of every low marsh and wet meadow, provided with tussocks ofsedge grass, in which they indispensably dwell, for a time engaged in thecares and gratification of raising and providing for their young. The nest of the Short-billed Marsh Wren is made wholly of dry or partlygreen sedge, bent usually from the top of the grassy tuft in which the fabricis situated. With mu
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