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iimes it renders persistently. This song, Mr. Eidgway says, "■recalls 

 that of the Cardinal, but is much weaker." Mr. Chapman says: ''It 

 is a loud, clearly whistled performance of five, six or seven notes — 

 iur-dle, tur-dle, tur-dle — resembling in tone some of the calls of the 

 ■Carolina Wren" (B. E. N. A., p. 369). At Lafayette, they appeared 

 -common until August 29, 1894, when it was last seen (L. A. and C. D. 

 Test). Mr. J. E. Beasley reports six from Lebanon, October 11, 1894:. 



285. (<378) Geothlypis agilis (Wils.). 



Connecticut Warbler. 



Adult Male. — "Olive-green, becoming ashy on the head; below, from 

 the breast, yellow, olive-shaded on the sides; chin, throat and breast, 

 brownish-ash; a whitish ring round the eye; wings and tail, unmarked, 

 glossed with olive; under mandibles and feet, pale; no decided mark- 

 ings anywhere. In Spring Birds, the ash of the head, throat and 

 breast is quite pure, and then the resemblance to Geothlypis Philadel- 

 phia is quite close" (Cones). 



Length, 5.20-6.00; wing, 2.65-3.00; tail, 1.90-2.20; tarsus, .75-.90. 



Eaxge. — America, from northern South America through eastern 

 United States to Ontario and Manitoba. Breeds north of Ignited 

 States. Winters south of United States. 



Nest, in a depression in the ground, of fine gpass. Eggs, 4; white, 

 with a few spots of lilac, purple, brown and black about the larger end. 

 (Thompson). 



The Connecticut Warbler is, in general, a very rare migrant in In- 

 diana. I have met with it three years out of nineteen at Brookville. 

 May 22-25, 1882, I found it rather common there, frequenting brush 

 piles, tangled fencerows, the edges of thickets and of woods, where 

 their habits seemed to >- .^luch like those of the Maryland Yellow- 

 throat, except they are much more shy. When they are found in a 

 rick of brush, they move along within the brush pile after the manner 

 of a Wren, and it is impossible to dislodge them or even to obtain more 

 than a quick glimpse of them at short range, until the end of the 

 windrow is reached, and tbey fly close to the ground in the nearest 

 pile or thicket. Along the edge of a thicket or wood they sometimes 

 expose themselves in the weeds and grass, but upon the approach of 

 anything strange they dart into the tangle of vines, briers and shrub- 

 bery, from which it is impossible to flush them. 



Mr. Eobert Eidgway found them not common in Knox County, 

 about the middle of May, 1881. They frequented the borders of 

 swamps, and when surprised, disappeared among the button bushes 



