63G MICHIGAN P.IRD LIFE. 



It was composed of dry grass and sunken level with the surface of the 

 ground. The eggs were four, creamy white, with a few spots of lilac- 

 purple, brown, and black, and measured .75 by .56 inches. 



There is little doubt that the Connecticut Warbler nests regularly in 

 parts of Northern Michigan, but it is usually confused with the Mourning 

 Warbler, which is far more plentiful. Thus records unsupported by 

 specimens must be received with the greatest caution. Recent captures 

 in the southeastern part of the state indicate that the bird is to be found 

 more frequently than is generally supposed. Mr. P. A. Taverner, in his 

 manuscript list of the birds of St. Clair county, says: ''I do not think 

 this bird as rare as is generally supposed, as I have taken one every year 

 for the last six years wherever I have been. The finding of them seems 

 to be more in knowing where to look and looking." Mr. N. A. Eddy, of Bay 

 City, has two skins in his collection taken on Heisterman's Island, Saginaw 

 Bay, September 2, 1889, and Mr. N. A. Wood found it common on Charity 

 Island, Saginaw Bay, September 1, 1910. He says ''I saw more in one 

 day than in all my hfe before." Mr. S. E. White took two specimens 

 on Mackinac Island, one August 30, 1889, and the other August 30, 1890. 

 Mr. J. Claire Wood has secured one or more specimens near Detroit, 

 and Mr. B. H. Swales gives a list of six or seven specimens taken in that 

 vicinity in recent years (Wilson Bulletin, No. 53, 1905, p. 109). Peet 

 records several seen on Isle Royale September 12, 1905. Apparently 

 the first specimens taken in the state were one secured by Dr. H. A. Atkins 

 at Locke, Ingham county, May 30, 1879, and one taken by C. W. Gunn in 

 Ottawa county May 22, 1879. Others were taken near Kalamazoo on 

 May 17, 1880, May 27, 1881 and May 28, 1883. A specimen was killed 

 on Spectacle Reef Light, Lake Huron, October 3, 1893. 



TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION. 



Adult male: Head, neck, and chest ash-gray, darkest on the chest and top of head; a 

 narrow white ring completely surrounding the eye; rest of upper parts, inchiding wings 

 and tail, olive-green; lower breast and belly pale yellow, sides shaded witli olive-green. 

 Adult female: Similar to the male, but top of head grayer, chin and tlu-oat soiled white 

 or buffy, and breast pale grayish-brown; eye-ring brownish-white. 



Length 5.20 to G inches; wing 2.65 to 3; tail L90 to 2.20. 



292. Mourning Warbler. Oporornis Philadelphia (Wils.). (679) 



Synonyms: Black-throated Ground Warbler, Cra])e Warbler. — Sylvia i)liiladolphia, 

 Wilson, 1810. — Trichas Philadelphia, Jardine, 1832. — Geothlypis i)hiladi'lpliia, Baird, 

 1858, and most subsequent writers. 



Very similar to the Connecticut Warbler, but lacks the white eye-ring 

 and has more or less black on the breast. See notes under Connecticut 

 Warbler. 



Distribution. — Eastern North America to the Plains, breeding from the 

 mountainous portions of Pennsylvania, New England, New Yoi'k, and 

 noi'thern Michigan northward. Central America and northern South 

 America in winter. 



A beautiful and not generally well known migrant throughout the whole 

 state, and a not uncommon summer resident in its northern half. Many 

 observers call it rare, but a good collector will have little difficulty in 

 finding it in some numbers during the latter half of May and again in 

 Sei)tember and early Octobei-. Jt is one of the latest warblers to ari'ive 



