CANADIAN WARBLER. 
There is a slight upward inflection to the voice and a 
final drop. It is also a shorter song than that of the 
Redstart. 
Canadian This beautiful Yellow-breasted Warbler 
ba mise with the black necklace is a familiar in- 
capensis“ Habitant of the lowland woods. Like his 
L. 56.0 inches near relative, Wilson’s Blackcap, he will 
May 2oth always be found somewhere in the wet 
woods near the water. His markings are similar to 
those of the Parula Warbler, but he is a bird, as the say- 
ing is, ‘‘of another color.” Upper parts slate gray, 
wings and tail with more of an olive brown tone; no 
wing-bars nor tail patches ; a band from the bill to the 
eye, and the under parts bright yellow; crown spotted 
with black, and region below and behind the eye black; 
a necklace of black spots festooned across the breast; the 
adult male with conspicuous bill bristles. Female simi- 
larly marked but with dusky olive brown replacing the 
black. Nest on the ground, set on a mossy bank or 
among the roots of a protecting shrub; it is built of dead 
leaves, shreds of bark, moss, and rootlets, and lined with 
similar finer material. Egg white speckled with red or 
madder brown mostly at the larger end. This Warbler 
is distributed through eastern North America, ranging 
as far north as Newfoundland, Labrador, and Lake Win- 
nipeg; it breeds from Michigan and Massachusetts north- 
ward to the range limit, and southward along the higher 
Alleghanies to North Carolina; it winters in Central, 
and northern South America. Although in the times of 
migration this bird will be seen in association with other 
Warblers, it is pre-eminently a retiring character, with 
fly-catching tendencies (it is not infrequently called the 
Canadian Flycatcher), aad a decided preference for the 
wooded banks of streams. 
The song of the Canadian Warbler is but slightly like 
that of the Yellow Warbler, though some writers seem 
to think the resemblance is strong. But I have long 
since called attention to the fact that these superficial 
similarities will not stand the test of thorough musical 
analysis. Compare my notations of the Yellow Warbler’s 
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