. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds. Birds; Birds. SONQ BIRDS OF OBOHABD AND WOODLAND. 199 One day, as I stopped to drink at a spring in the woods, a beautiful male Black-throated Green Warbler shot down from a tall tree and alighted on a moss-grown rock that bordered the diminutive pool. Evidently he had not expected me, but was not at all afraid. He looked up at me inquiringly for a moment, and then, stepping
. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds. Birds; Birds. SONQ BIRDS OF OBOHABD AND WOODLAND. 199 One day, as I stopped to drink at a spring in the woods, a beautiful male Black-throated Green Warbler shot down from a tall tree and alighted on a moss-grown rock that bordered the diminutive pool. Evidently he had not expected me, but was not at all afraid. He looked up at me inquiringly for a moment, and then, stepping into the shallow water, dipped his head and threw the drops in showers as he shook out his brilliant plumage in the bath. His ablutions finished, quite within reach of my hand, he mounted again to the tree top, and sent back his drowsy SO'^g- Fig. 67. âBlack-throated This bird has several chirps which it '*'^⢠warwer, natural 'â ^ size. utters to express different emotions, but its song is most charniing, harmonizing, as it does, with the whispering of the pines to the summer wind. It has a zeeing sound. Hoffman gives it as zee, zee, zu, zi. This is given with a little of the quality which characterizes the song of the harvest cicada, and often with a difference in the pitch of the first and last syllables. John Burroughs graphically repre- sents the notes thus : â __y'"~ """. The upper lines signify the higher tones. Bradford Torrey translates the song as " Trees, trees, murmuring trees; " but a more practical writer assures us that the bird calls for "Cheese, cheese, a little more ; It has at least one other song of the same character, but longer and perhaps a trifle more varied. This is usually considered to be its entire repertoire; but no one can ever be quite sure that he knows all the notes of any bird. In the fall of 1905 I heard in a small birch tree in Concord a song that resembled closely the lay of a Warbling Vire
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