CONNECTICUT WARBLER 



May 29, 1894 

 May 1 6, 1896 

 May 21, 1897 

 May 20, 1898 



I SAW this bird first on a low tree in the 

 main street of Elmhurst. I followed 

 the loud, ringing, wheedle-dee, wheedle- 

 dee, wheedle-dee, supposing of course I 

 should see a Maryland Yellow-throat, 

 when what was my surprise to find it the 

 Connecticut warbler. I watched it sing 

 many times. The song is almost exactly 

 like the Maryland. It is often repeated 

 three times, sometimes only twice. Its 

 ash-colored head and yellow breast and 

 under parts, with no white on wings make 

 it a sober bird. The ash terminating 

 abruptly into yellow on the breast is the 

 distinguishing mark, and the light ring 

 around the eye enables one to identify it 

 as a Connecticut and not a light-colored 

 mourning warbler which it otherwise 

 closely resembles. 



May, 1896. The loud ringing song at- 

 tracted me again to this bird in Lake For- 

 est this morning. It utters the first two 



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