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C. II. Merrlaui — Birds of (Jonnectlcut. 2^ 



Its nest was found at Sing Sing, Westclieter Co., N. Y., in June, 

 1875, by Mr. A. K. Fisher,* and Mr. E. P. Bicknell writes me that 

 he secured a male at Riverdale, in tlie same county, May 30, 1876. 

 Giraud found it on Long Ishmd many years ago.f Wilson says, "Tliis 

 si>ecies is sehlom seen among the high branches, hut loves to frequent 

 low bushes and cane swamps, and is an active, sprightly bird. Its 

 notes are loud, and in threes, resembling tu^eedle, tweedle, tictcdle. . . 

 ... It appeared to me to be a restless, lighting species, almost 

 always engaged in pursuing some of its fellows ; though this might 

 have been occasioned by its numbers, and the i)articular season of 

 spring, when love and jealousy rage with violence in the breasts of 

 the feathered tenants of the grove ; who experience all the ardency of 

 those passions no less than their lord and sovereign man, "J 



Since writing the above I learn from Mr. J. G. Ely of Lyme, Conn., 

 that he has "shot one Kentucky Warbler." 



52. Geothlypis trichas (Lhme) Cabanis. Maryland Yellow-tliroat. 



A common summer resident, breeding plentifully. Arrives early in 

 May (May 5), remaining till late in the fall (Nov. 1st, 1870). 



53. G-eothlypis Philadelphia (Wilsou) Baird. Mourning Warbler. 



A rather rare migrMit, but probably more abundant than commonly 

 supposed — not coming till after most of the warblers are gone. Have 

 only seen it in spring. Mr. Bragg shot a male on May 24th, 187*>, in low 

 bushes. On the following day Mr, Uayan secured two males; and I 

 saw several on the morning of the 27th. Mr. Thomas Osborne has 

 seen it as early as May loth (May 15 and 17, 1876). I shot a beautiful 

 male near Savin Rock, Conn,, May 25th, 1877. Mr. Grinnell tells me 

 that he killed a pair ( <? and 9 ) late in ^Nlay, ] 875, near Milford, Conn. 

 Mr. J. N. Clark, also, has killed it, late in May, at Saybrook, Conn. 

 At Easthampton, ^lass,, in the spring of 1874, I shot two specimens : 

 " The first. May 27th, in a brush-heap ; and the other, May 28th, on a 

 large birch tree." Large numbers of them breed regularly, in suitable 

 localities, in Lewis and Herkimer Counties, in northern New York, 

 It also breeds al)uiidantly about Umbagog Lake, Oxford Co., Maine 

 (Brewster), and in Minnesota (T. Martin Trippe), even as far west as 

 "the Red River, between Dakota and Minnesota" (Coues). 



* Am. Nat, vol. ix, No. 10, p. 573. Oct., 187.5. 



f Birds of Long Island. By ,J. P. Giraud. Jr., p. 50. 1844. 



; Wilson's American Ornithology. Vol. ii, p. 151-2. 1331. 



