CONNECTICUT WARBLER. 



678. Opornornis agilis. 5% inches. 



Male with a bluish slate-colored head; eye ring white 

 and completely encircling the eye; female with a saffron- 

 colored head. 



In the United States we find this Warbler only in 

 spring and fall migrations. They appear to be much 

 more rare in the spring than in the fall; while I have 

 seen perhaps a hundred in the fall I have never seen 

 but one in spring. They frequent wild tangled thickets, 

 such as you often find Maryland Yellow-throats in. As 

 they do most of their feeding upon the ground and re- 

 main in the depths of the thickets, they are rarely seen 

 unless attention is drawn to them. 



Song. Somewhat like that of the Maryland Yellow- 

 throat; call, a sharp, metallic "peenk." 



Nest. In thickets or clumps of briars, either on the 

 ground or just above it; made of strips of bark and 

 skeletons of leaves, lined with hair; eggs whitish spar- 

 ingly specked at the large end with brown (.75x.56). 



Range. Eastern X. A., breeding north of the U. S.; 

 winters in northern South America. 



