MOURNING WARBLER. 
between September 6th, and October 4th, in the years 
1903, ’04, 708, 09, and 710. My own records show but 
one bird in late September, observed at Echo Lake, Fran- 
conia Notch. This Warbler’s colors are pronounced; up- 
per parts olive brown merging into pale slaty gray on the 
sides, head, and chest, a distinctly white eye ring, lower 
parts yellow sharply separated from the gray of the chest, 
no wing-bars. Nest, on the ground, built of dried 
grasses and vegetable fibre. Egg, white sparingly marked 
with lavender and sepia black, spots at the larger end. 
The species breeds from Manitoba south to Minnesota and 
northern Michigan; it winters in South America. 
The song of the Connecticut Warbler is not likely to 
be heard beyond the breeding grounds northwest of the 
Great Lakes, and of course one cannot judge of the char- 
acter of the song from the metallic chink of the call note 
in the fall. But the syllabic form as described by Mr. 
Seton is sufficiently graphic to give one the impression 
that it must bear an unmistakable resemblance to the 
dissyllabic calls of the Ovenbird. He described it as 
sounding like Beecher, beecher, beecher, beecher, etc., and 
at other times like fru-chapel, fru-chapel, fru-chapel, 
whoit,—this, in its summer home among the larch swamps 
of Manitoba. 
Mourning Mourning is scarcely a justly chosen ad- 
Warbler jective and consequently not a fair name for 
O porornis . : | j 
philadelphia 8 lively and attractive a bird as this, the 
L. 5.63 inches hood he wears is not black and the song he 
May ioth sings is not sad! The coloring certainly is 
not mournful, the head and neck is covered, hoodlike, 
with a soft light slate-blue, which is blackish at the throat, 
the back, wings, and tail are brownish olive, under parts 
deep yellow sharply defined with the black below the 
throat, no wing-bars. Nest, built on or near the ground, 
of shreds of bark, weeds, and grass, lined with finer grasses, 
black inner bark, or black rootlets. Egg, ivory or cream 
white flecked with burnt sienna brown and lavender, 
the markings heavy on the larger end. This species breeds 
from central Alberta southeastwardly to the Magdalen 
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