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is yellower and the sides browner. Plumage of adult female and immature : 

 no black on head ; above olive green ; throat and breast yellowish ; belly 

 white or whitish ; sides brownish ; under tail coverts yellow ; immature 

 males have the black mask more or less indicated. Wing 2.15 ; tail 2.00. 



Geog. Dist. — Breeding from eastern Texas and eastern North Dakota to 

 the Alleghany mountains, in the whole of the Mississippi Valley, north to 

 Alberta and Athabaska, and from northern New York, east of the Alleghany 

 Mountains and northern New Jersey to southern Labrador and Newfound- 

 land ; wintering in the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Louisiana to eastern Texas, 

 and in Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. 



County Records. — Androscoggin; common summer resident, (Johnson). 

 Aroostook ; common summer resident, (Knight) ; common at Fort Fairfield, 

 (Batchelder, B. N. O. C. 7, p. 110). Cumberland ; common summer resident, 

 (Brown, C. B. P. p. 10). Franklin; common summer resident, (Swain). 

 Hancock; common summer resident, noted on Deer Island, (Knight). Ken- 

 nebec; quite common simimer resident, (Powers). Knox; summer, (Rack- 

 liff). Oxford; breeds commonly, (Nash). Penobscot ; common summer resi- 

 dent, (Knight). Piscataquis; common siunmer resident, (Homer). Sagada- 

 hoc; common summer resident, (Spinney). Somerset; common summer 

 resident, (Morrell). Waldo; common summer resident, (Knight). Washing- 

 ton; abundant summer resident, (Boardman). York; common summer 

 resident, (Adams). 



Mr. Brown has given the date of arrival near Portland as 

 about May tenth and the departure about October twenty- 

 second, which latter date is unusually late, I should judge, for 

 the last straggler. Near Bangor the species is usually seen 

 about May fifteenth and remains very exceptionally as late as 

 September twenty-fifth. The species is common throughout 

 the State in proper localities, frequenting during migration 

 the trees and bushes to quite an extent. 



In the breeding season they are found in the meadows, cat- 

 tail bogs, bushy bordered streams and ponds, wet bushy pastures 

 and in general similar situations, no matter how limited in 

 extent, which afford moist, sunny, grassy or sedgy, bushy 

 localities. When nesting they are inclined to sneak through 

 the reeds and sedges, hopping from bush to bush, and peering 

 out at the intruder from the different points of view so obtained 

 and uttering frequently a rather harsh "chick" or a rasping, 

 chattering "ratter ratter ratter" or occasionally a "chit." The 

 male sings frequently in the spring and early summer, his 



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