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tie has been learned. We know that it is an exceedingly rare 

 spring migrant with us, but is more common in autumn, and 

 during some seasons is even locally abundant. Thus it has 

 been found in considerable numbers in the Fresh Pond Marsh- 

 es, Cambridge. I have also found it rather common in New- 

 ton. It is a ground-living species, and in general habit quite 

 closely resembles the Water Thrush; like that species it may 

 be seen moving rather leisurely about the muddy borders of 

 ponds in swampy locations in search of food. I have occasion- 

 ally seen it in trees, and two or three years ago I saw one sit- 

 ting on a large limb of an apple tree that stands back of my 

 laboratory. When perching or moving on the ground the 

 bird usually rather slowly raises and lowers its tail. 



Song. In May, 1890, I saw a Connecticut Warbler near 

 my place in West Newton and watched it for some time, for it 

 was very tame. My attention was attracted to it by hearing 

 its song, which was a low, but exceedingly sweet, warble, quite 

 prolonged, and uttered at rather wide intervals. This may, 

 however, have been apracticing song, for Mr. Ernest E. Thomp- 

 son, who discovered a nest near Carberg, Manitoba, on June 

 21, 1883, says, the notes "are somewhat like the song of the 

 Ovenbird, but different in pitch throughout. " His rendering 

 of the lay is, " beecher-beecher-beecher-beecher-beecher-beech- 

 er.". Another type given is, '■\fru-chapp1e fru-chapple fru- 



chapple -what., uttered in a loud, ringing voice." (Proc. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XIII, 1900, pp. 621-22.) 



Migration and Breeding Range. The few specimens 

 that have been found in New England have occurred in May. 

 In autumn the bird passes through Massachusetts in Septem- 

 ber, much more commonly from the middle to the last of the 

 month. I have found it once only outside of our limits ; at 

 Watsontown, Pennsylvania, September '22, 1875. There is 

 one spring record from the Bahamas; Cay Sal, May 7. It 

 breeds, as far as is positively known, in Manitoba only, but may 



