Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America

The book that made American bird-watching possible in the field: keys, plumages, songs and habits for every species of the East, by the man who ran ornithology at the American Museum.

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Ernest Thompson describes its song as beginning with a note like chipiti, chipiti, repeated a dozen or more times, with increasing rapidity, then suddenly changed into a mere twitter. Bradford Torrey says the Tennessee's song "is more suggestive of the Nashville's than of any other, but so decidedly different as never for a moment to be confounded with it," and adds a detailed description (The Footpath Way, p. 8). 648. Compsothlypis americana (Linn.). PARULA WARBLER;

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