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greatly unlike our eastern form in song. At any rate this 

 is as good a place for them as could well be found. 



Connecticut "Warbler. Ccothlypis agilis. (JTS. 



In this song there is a mixture of Oven-bird and Maryland 

 Yellow-throat, but the resemblance is no doubt closer to the 

 latter. Mr. Thompson's free-chapple free-chapple free-chapple- 

 ivhoit will recall it to some. Mr. Butler prefers the word 

 "beecher." Mr. Gault describes six variations which .seem 

 well worth repeating' here. 



1. Wheat-a: icheat-a: zuheat, gradually increasing in vol- 

 ume to the last. 



2. Wheat, our zcinter wheat, or our zuinter zvheat. 



'>. Chip chce-a-7ccc; chip chee-a-ivee ; chip chee-a-wee. 



4. Wheat, winter wheat, zv inter wheat, winter wheat. 



5. Wheat here, and sometimes only wheat .• this on bright 

 moon-light nights. 



(i. Wheat-it-ta, 7vheat-it-ta, wheat, the last sjdlable some- 

 times omitted. 



No one could doubt the resemblance to Maryland Yellow- 

 throat from these representations. 



I find nothing to indicate the duration of the song period, 

 nor whether there is the recurrence of song in fall. 



The northern tamarac swamps and bogs are the home of 

 this Warbler. It is one of the "ground warblers," spending 

 much time on the ground. 



It is another of the numerous company of warblers of east- 

 ern North America, breeding north of the United States. It 

 passes north with the Warbler host in early May. 



There are several species whose songs have not been de- 

 scribed at all, or inadequately described for the purposes of this 

 paper. They may be given in systematic order. 



Lucy's "Warbler. Helminthophila Incite. ()48. 



Arizona and extreme southwestern Utah, from the Santa 

 Clara ^^allev .southward to vSonora : New Mexico. 



