. Our northern and eastern birds : containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and eastern states and British provinces; together with a history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and a careful and accurate description of their nests and eggs . noticed that it is most usually foundin or near the different pines. Its song is heard throughthe mating and breeding seasons, as the bird is activelymoving about the trees searching for its food. This song is something like the syllables, ta-te-te-it-td-tee,uttered in a plaintive
. Our northern and eastern birds : containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and eastern states and British provinces; together with a history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and a careful and accurate description of their nests and eggs . noticed that it is most usually foundin or near the different pines. Its song is heard throughthe mating and breeding seasons, as the bird is activelymoving about the trees searching for its food. This song is something like the syllables, ta-te-te-it-td-tee,uttered in a plaintive tone ; the first syllable low, the secondhigher, the third and fourth quickly together and high, andthe fifth and sixth a little slower and lower. Its song ispeculiar, and cannot be confounded with that of any otherWarbler in New England. DENDROICA CANADENSIS. — Black-throated Blue Warbler. Motadlla Canadensis, Linnseus. Syst. Nat., I. (1766) 336. Gm., I. (1788) Canadensis, Wilson. Am. Orn , IL (1810) 115. Nutt. Man., I. (1832) Orn. Biog., II. (1834) 309. Sylvia pusilla, Wilson. Am. Orn , V. (1812) 100. Description. Above uniform continuous grayish-blue, including the outer edges of the quilland tail feathers; a naiTow frontal line, the entire sides of head and neck, cliin and. MALE 8, FEMALE, NcwlCua Pie THE BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER. 225 throat, lustrous black, this color extending in a broad lateral stripe to the tail; restof under parts, including the axillary region, white; wings and tail black above, theformer with a conspicuous white patch ibrnied by the bases of all the prLniaries(except the first); the inner webs of the secondaries and tertials with similar patchestowards the base and along the inner margin; all the tail feathers, except the inner-most, with a white patch on the inner web, near the end. female, olive-green above and dull-yellow beneath; sides of head dusky-olive,the eyelids and a superciliary stripe whit
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