. . snaps him up, and takes to a sweet-smelling spice-bushfor another round of music. A passing vireo, which, by theway, was born thereabouts, is fiercely assailed by the swag-gering stranger, and retires in confusion. (Dawson.) The nest of stems, pine needles, leaves, and grasses isplaced in a clump of weeds, tussock of grass, or small situations most liked are woodland pastures or weedyfields. The four or five eggs are white, speckled with darkbrown and purple. THE NASHVILLE WARBLER The Nashville Warbler is common during
. . snaps him up, and takes to a sweet-smelling spice-bushfor another round of music. A passing vireo, which, by theway, was born thereabouts, is fiercely assailed by the swag-gering stranger, and retires in confusion. (Dawson.) The nest of stems, pine needles, leaves, and grasses isplaced in a clump of weeds, tussock of grass, or small situations most liked are woodland pastures or weedyfields. The four or five eggs are white, speckled with darkbrown and purple. THE NASHVILLE WARBLER The Nashville Warbler is common during the migra-tions in many parts of the country. Its range extends fromthe Atlantic Ocean west to eastern Nebraska and north intoLabrador and the fur countries, occasionally wanderingeven to Greenland. It winters in the tropics south of theUnited States. In the northward migration it reaches Texas about thethird week in April and Manitoba near the end of the first J. -*/ 245 NASHVILLE WARBLER. (Heiminthophila rubricapilla). Life-size. » *«:. c>»fC«co. 611 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER I, Helminthophila celata).Life-si/e. COPTRIOHT HOI, «r A. W. MUMfORO, CHICAGO WARBLERS 385 week in May, thus passing completely across the country inabout three weeks. The song has been compared to that of the chestnut-sided warbler and to the chipping sparrow combined. Tomy ear the Nashville warblers song is enough unlike thesong of any other bird to be easily recognized after a singlehearing. My note book renders it thus: K tsip, k tsip,k tsip, k tsip, chip ee, chip ee, chip ee, chip. In common with the other members of this genus, theNashville warbler nests on the ground, usually in a spotwell protected by dried grasses and other litter of the pre-vious years growth, often in a tangle of shrubs, ferns, andbushes. The nest is sometimes sunk flush with the surface,and is composed of grasses, mosses, pine needles, strips ofbark, and leaves, hned with finer material of the same sortand with hair
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