180 THE CONNECTICUT WARBLER. 
Recognition Marks.—Larger ; grayish slate of male, without black, and con- 
trasting with pale yellow below; female and young obscure brownish olive and 
yellowish birds, without definite contrasts. 
Nesting.—Does not breed in Ohio. Nests described from Manitoba and 
Ontario, of dry grass, or of grass, leaves and trash, lined with hair, on the 
ground. Eggs, 4, white with a few spots of lilac, purple, brown, and black 
about the larger end. Av. size, .75 x .60 (19.1 x 15.2) (Thompson). 
General Range.—KE astern North America, breeding north of the United 
States. Northern South America in winter. 
Range in Ohio.—Quite rare, during migrations. 
OF the forty species of Warblers now accredited to Ohio, this is the one 
bird which has successfully eluded the author’s search afield, so that he may 
perhaps be pardoned some little emotion in setting it down as “quite rare” 
Others have been more fortunate: Dr. Kirtland in 1838 took one specimen; 
Dr. Langdon reports one taken near Cincinnati by Mr. Dury in the spring of 
1876; Dr. Wheaton saw two during his twenty years’ residence in Columbus; 
Professor Jones reports recently two birds seen near Oberlin; and Rey. W. F 
Henninger a pair taken at Waverly, August 10, 1899.1 
Mr. Ernest E. Thompson, who was the first to find the nest of the Con- 
necticut Warbler, says of it: “This species has somewhat the manners of the 
Vireos, but it is much more active and sprightly in its movements. During 
the migrations it is generally found on or near the ground in the undergrowth 
of low damp woods, and also in bordering weedy fields, where it sometimes 
announces its presence by a sharp peck. In the cold boggy tamarack swamps 
of Manitoba, where I found it breeding, it was the only HE of the family and 
almost the only bird, whose voice broke the silence of those gray wastes. Its 
loud song was much like the teacher, teacher chant of the Oven-bird, but it also 
uttered another, which I can recall to mind by the aid of the syllables, ‘free- 
chapple, free-chapple, free-chapple, whoit.” 
Mr. M. C. Read, writing in “The Family Visitor” in 1853, says, “This 
species is described as very rare, but for the two summers past I have noticed 
it as very abundant in a field of dense brambles, in Andover, Ashtabula County. 
In its habits it resembles the preceding (Trichas marylandica) [now Geothly- 
pis trichas brachidactyla| or rather the peculiar habits of the genus are strik- 
ingly exhibited in this species. * * * ‘They undoubtedly nest with us in 
considerable numbers.” Whether Mr. Read was correct in his surmise we 
cannot now determine. If true, it is quite probable that the northward trend 
of species has long since removed the Connecticut Warbler from the list of our 
breeding birds. 
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recalled that of an obscure Geothlypis of which I had_ obtained Sel Piece glimpses on the 7th of 
October 1901—probably in the same thicket where Mr. Parker captured his bird—and which I had set down 
tentatively as an immature male of the Kentucky Warbler. A sober thought, however, of the late date, and 
the appearance of the O. S. U. specimen in the same plumage convince me that it wasan immature Con- 
necticut Warbler. The bird gave little snatches of song quite unlike anything else I ever heard. 
