. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. WARBLERS 115 Swainson's \\ arbler is a strange, rare, soulli- ern bird. He is so strange that one hardly ex- pects to call such a plain brown and white bird gliding so gracefully along under the bushes a Warbler. He is so rare that one may search for days and not find him. Even in the South, one has to confine one's search for him to the coastal swamps from the Dismal Swam]) of Virginia down through the " jjineland gal! " of the Caro- linas, west in the vine-tangled .senfitrnpical ver- dure of the (iulf coast and up the .Mississi]ipi and s
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. WARBLERS 115 Swainson's \\ arbler is a strange, rare, soulli- ern bird. He is so strange that one hardly ex- pects to call such a plain brown and white bird gliding so gracefully along under the bushes a Warbler. He is so rare that one may search for days and not find him. Even in the South, one has to confine one's search for him to the coastal swamps from the Dismal Swam]) of Virginia down through the " jjineland gal! " of the Caro- linas, west in the vine-tangled .senfitrnpical ver- dure of the (iulf coast and up the .Mississi]ipi and some of its tributaries in the thickets nf the bot- tom lands. In describing the song. Mr. W illiam llrewster says it is " a performance so remarkable that it can scarcely fail to attract the dullest ear, while it is not likely to be soon forgotten. It consists of a series of clear, ringing whistles, the first four uttered rather slowly and in the same key, the remaining five or six given more rapidly, and in an evenly descending scale, like those of the Canon Wren. ... In general eft'ect it recalls the song of the \\ ater-thrush. . It is very loud, very rich, very beautiful, while it has an indescribably tender (puility that thrills the senses after the sound has ceased. . Although a rarely fer\ent and ecstatic smigster, our little friend is als(.) a fitful ancs of Hack and a center one of olive-huff: rest of upper parts, plain grayish ; a hroad stripe over eye of pale buff, margined beneath by a rather broad streak of black behind eye; a triangular spot of the same, or dusky grayish, in front of eye; sides of head below this black line, with entire under parts, pale dull huffy, deepest on chest, paler on throat and abdomen (the latter sometimes nearly white), tinged with grayish-olive on flanks; under tail-coverts, pale olive-grayish, edged and broadly tipped with pale yellowish-buff: bill, brown; iris, brown; legs and feet, pale brownish flesh cnlnr. Nest an
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