CONNECTICUT WARBLER. 



678. Geothlypis agilis. S l / 2 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 remain 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 N. A., breeding north of the U. S.; 

 winters in northern South America. 



