496 THE BIRDS OF MAINE 



The song of the male is a rather rapidly uttered " twipiti, 

 twipiti, twipiti, twipiti, twipi-wipiwipiwipiwipiwipi " uttered at 

 first slowly, quickly increasing until the syllables run together 

 and ending in a rapid twitter. The alarm call is a " chip " 

 or " tseep." 



Genus COMPSOTHLYPIS Cabanis. 



648a. Compsothlypis americana usnece Brewster. Northern 

 Parula Warbler; Northern Blue Yellow-backed Warbler. 



Plumage of adult male : above bluish gray or grayish blue with a greenish 

 yellow patch in the center of the back ; wing coverts tipped with white, 

 forming two wing bands ; outer tail feathers with white patch near ends ; a 

 band across the chest of chestnut to rufous black ; throat and breast yellow, 

 somewhat tinged with rufous and sides washed with rufous ; belly white. 

 Plumage of adult female : chestnut in the band across chest more restricted 

 or even lacking ; upper parts greener than in male ; otherwise very similar. 

 Immature plumage : more brownish olive gray above ; wings and tail clove 

 brown, edged with olive green; very similar to adult female in general 

 otherwise. Wing 2.35 ; tail 1.70. 



Geog. Dist. — Breeding from the higher mountains of Pennsylvania and 

 Virginia, and from New York and the New England States north to New 

 Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Michigan, Ontario, Wiscon- 

 sin, etc ; range not yet well distinguished from that of Parula Warbler 

 though entirely a northern race ; wintering in Mexico, the West Indies, Gua- 

 temala, Florida, the Bahamas, etc. ; migrating through the various states 

 southward to reach winter range. 



County Records. — Androscoggin; common migrant, fairly common sum- 

 mer resident, (Johnson). Aroostook ; summer resident, very local and seem- 

 ingly not common, but found even into the Woolastook Valley, (Knight). 

 Cumberland; common summer resident, (Mead). Franklin; rare summer 

 resident, (Swain). Hancock; common summer resident, have found a few 

 nests, (Mrs. W. H. Gardner). Kennebec ; common summer resident, (Gardi- 

 ner Branch). Knox; summer resident, (Norton). Oxford, breeds at Upton, 

 (Maynard, L. B. C. Co., N. H. & 0. Co., Me., p. 6). Penobscot ; quite common 

 summer resident, local, (Knight). Piscataquis ; common, (Homer). Sagada- 

 hoc; common summer resident, (Spinney). Somerset; it seems to be a not 

 uncommon summer resident of this locality, (Morrell, Me. Sp. Nov. 1898, p. 2). 

 Waldo ; local summer resident, not rare, (Knight). Washington ; not uncom- 

 mon summer resident, (Boardman). 



Mr. Brown in his Catalogue of the Birds of Portland gives 



the date of arrival in spring as May ninth to thirteenth and 



