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half of September and in early October. In the swamps 

 about Fresh Pond in Cambridge, Mass., it is sometimes 

 common. In such places it feeds in the jewel-weed 

 (^Impatiens), great masses of which grow in the wet soil. In 

 western Massachusetts it occurs in rather dry lanes. It is 

 more leisurely in its behavior than its relative the Maryland 

 Yellow-throat, and when disturbed often flies to some low 

 limb near by, where it sits quietly. An adult in full 

 plumage is rare, but the bird may always be distinguished 

 from the female Maryland Yellow-throat by its throat, 

 which is brownish where the other species is yellow, and 

 by its bright yelloiu under parts. If the bird is seen at 

 close range, a whitish eye-ring is visible. 



Kentucky Warbler. Geothlypis foimiosa 



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Ad^ ^. — Crown and stripe from bill along side of throat 

 black ; line over eye and vuider parts bright yellow ; back, wings, 

 and tail brown, tinged with greenish-yellow in strong light. 

 jicl. 9. — Similar, but the black veiled with gray. 



Nest, of dried leaves on the ground. Eggs, white, spotted with 

 brown or reddish-brown. 



The Kentucky Warbler is a rather common, though local, 

 summer resident of the lower Hudson Valley as far north as 



Sing Sing. It arrives early in May 

 and leaves late in August. It fre- 

 quents low damp woods, spending 

 most of its time on or near the 

 ground. Its song is loud and bright, 

 and resembles the syllables tweedle, 

 tweedle, tiveedle. The Maryland Yel- 

 low-throat has been taken for the Kentucky Warbler ; the 

 yelloiv line over the eye is the distinguishing mark of the 

 latter. 



Fig. 12. Kentucky 

 Warbler 



