CANADIAN WARBLER. 



is a slight upward inflection to the voice and a 

 final drop. It is also a shorter song than that of the 

 Redstart. 



Canadian This beautiful Yellow-breasted Warbler 



Warbler with the black necklace is a familiar ir A - 



habitant of the lowland woods. Like his 

 L. 56.0 inches near relative, Wilson's Blackcap, he will 

 May aoth always be found somewhere in the wet 

 woods near the water. His markings are similar to 

 those of the Parula Warbler, but he is a bird, as the say- 

 ing is, "of another color.'* Upper parts slate gray, 

 wings and tail with more of an olive brown tone; no 

 wing-bars nor tail patches ; a band from the bill to the 

 eye, and the under parts bright yellow; crown spotted 

 with black, and region below and behind the eye black; 

 a necklace of black spots festooned across the breast; the 

 adult male with conspicuous bill bristles. Female simi- 

 larly marked but with dusky olive brown replacing the 

 black. Nest on the ground, set on a mossy bank or 

 among the roots of a protecting shrub; it is built of dead 

 leaves, shreds of bark, moss, and rootlets, and lined with 

 similar finer material. Egg white speckled with red or 

 madder brown mostly at the larger end. This Warbler 

 is distributed through eastern North America, ranging 

 as far north as Newfoundland, Labrador, and Lake Win- 

 nipeg; it breeds from Michigan and Massachusetts north- 

 ward to the range limit, and southward along the higher 

 AUeghanies to North Carolina; it winters in Central, 

 and northern South America. Although in the times of 

 migration this bird will be seen in association with other 

 Warblers, it is pre-eminently a retiring character, with 

 fly -catch ing tendencies (it is not infrequently called the 

 Canadian Flycatcher), and a decided preference for the 

 wooded banks of streams. 



The song of the Canadian Warbler is but slightly like 

 that of the Yellow Warbler, though some writers seem 

 to think the resemblance is strong. But I have long 

 since called attention to the fact that these superficial 

 similarities will not stand the test of thorough musical 

 analysis. Compare my notations of the Yellow Warbler's 

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