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the breast where it shades into black. The belly is greenish yellow. A bird of 



thickets and undergrowth, it is rarely seen far from the ground. The females 



Mourning Warbler. ^"^^^ young birds lack the hood, the upper parts are dark 



.., . , V olive $rreen throuijhout, and the throat is whitish shading 



Geothlypis Philadelphia o o ' ;:> 



iwiis.). Into gray on the breast, this color shading into the yellow 



of the belly. 



The nest is placed on the ground or near it, is made of strips of bark and 

 other vegetable fibre, lined with fine grasses and hairs. The four white eggs 

 are marked with reddish brown dots at the larger end, and are about seven tenths 

 of an inch long, and rather more than half an inch in their other diameter. 



This is a bird of Eastern North America, breeding throughout the moun- 

 tainous parts of Pennsylvania, New York, and New England, and at lower 

 elevations from Northern New England and Michigan northward. Its winter 

 home is in Central America and Northern South America. 



The Connecticut Warbler is a bird of general deep olive green tint above, 



and is rather longer than the Mourning Warbler, and of heavier build. It has 



Connecticut War- ^ hood of bluish gray, reaching well down on the breast, 



bier. becoming lighter on the throat. There is a decided light 



Geothlypis agiiisiwiis.). gray OTwhite eye ring. The belly is yellow shading into 



olive green on the sides. In fall the gray of the upper parts of the hood is 



suffused with olive green. The female and immature birds lack the hood, and 



are deep olive green above, with throat and breast light grayish brown, and 



the belly light yellow. 



The nest is built on the ground, of vegetable fibre in the carpet of soft 

 moss that covers the earth in the region indicated below. The eggs, four in 

 number, are white with sparse lilac brown and black spots at the larger end. 

 They are about a trifle over three quarters of an inch long and more than 

 half an inch broad. 



In the fall, when they are often abundant, these Warblers are silent, 

 and have certain thrush like attributes. They feed then, low down or on the 

 ground, in shady dark places, and when disturbed fly to some limb near by, 

 where they sit absolutely still for a few moments, before returning to feed. 



They are only known to breed in Manitoba, are of uncommon occurrence 

 during the spring migration in the Eastern United States, but are locally 

 often very abundant during the fall migration. They winter in Northern 

 South America. 



