GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK
Philadelphia, November 1850

CAGE BIRDS.
BY ANNA C. AUSTIN.

THE BLACK-THROATED WARBLER.

THIS bird is rather a rare one; visiting the Middle and Northern States in summer, and passing to the South in October. Their note is described by Nuttall as a simple, rather drawing, plaintive song, resembling the syllables "te de teritsca," and sometimes "te devisea," pronounced pretty loud and slow, and the tones proceeding from high to low.

When heard in the woods, it is very much like the call of the chickadee. Mr. Nuttall observed a pair of them in Milton, near Boston, and another pair near Mount Auburn, in Cambridge.

Its rarity, its slender, beautiful form, and simple melody, make it a desirable cage bird; and it should be fed on rape and Canary seed, and crumbs of bread.