494 THE BIRDS OF MAINE 



song which I have given previously seems to be the most 

 frequent one uttered near Bangor. Mr. Minot has written 

 the song as "wee-se, wee-see, wit-a-wit-a-wit." The Rev. J. H. 

 Langille renders it as "ke-tse, ke-tse; chip-ee-chip-ee-chip-ee- 

 chip." Mr. Galloway calls it "cheepa, cheepa, cheepa, cheepa, 

 pichepe, chip." Another variation given in Warbler Songs, 

 p. 40 is k-chip; k-chip; k-chip: che-che-che-che." The alarm 

 note or call of anxiety is a suppressed "chip." 



647. HelminthopMla peregrina (Wils.). Tennessee War- 

 bler. 



Plumage of adult male : above bright olive green ; the top and sides of 

 head grayish or bluish gray ; wings and tail brown, edged with olive green ; 

 a white spot often at tip of inner margin of outer tail feather ; under parts 

 white, slightly tinged with yellow sometimes. Plumage of adult female : 

 crown brown or greenish tinged, never as gray as in male ; slightly washed 

 with olive greenish below but otherwise like male. Immature plumage : 

 grayish olive green above, brighter on rump ; washed with yellowish below ; 

 under tail coverts white. Wing 2.65 ; tail 1.72. 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern North America, breeding from northern New 

 England, northern New York and northeastern Minnesota to the upper 

 Yukon Valley, eastern British Columbia, Quebec, Labrador and Mackenzie ; 

 accidental in California ; migrating southward through the middle and 

 eastern United States ; wintering in eastern Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua 

 and Columbia. 



County Records. — Androscoggin ; rare summer resident, (Johnson) ; a nest 

 and four eggs found near South Lewiston, June 4, 1895, and female shot, 

 (C. D. Farrar) ; seen near Livermore in June, (Swain). Aroostook; occurs 

 in summer and doubtless breeds, not rare through the Woolastook Valley, 

 (Knight). Franklin ; common spring migrant, rare summer resident seen 

 at Mt. Bigelow, June 30, 1905, (Sweet). Hancock; rare spring migrant, 

 (Mrs. W. H. Gardner). Kennebec; (Larrabee). Oxford; breeds at Upton, 

 (Maynard, L. B. C. C. N, H. & 0. C. Me. p. 7). Penobscot; regular migrant, 

 very rare summer resident, (Knight). Piscataquis ; rare summer resident, 

 (Whitman). Somerset ; one shot out of a flock of six or eight. May 15, 1896, 

 (Morrell) ; seen in Pleasant Ridge in early July, 1906, evidently breeding, 

 (Knight). Waldo; (Newell). Washington; common summer resident, 

 (Boardman). 



As far as observations go this species arrives from about 

 May tenth to the fifteenth, passing in small scattered flocks of 



