MOURNING WARBLER. 



between September 6th, and October 4th, in the years 

 1903, '04, '08, '09, and '10. My own records show but 

 one bird in late September, observed at Echo Lake, Fran- 

 oonia Notch. This Warbler's colors are pronounced; up- 

 per parts olive brown merging into pale slaty gray on the 

 sides, head, and chest, a distinctly white eye ring, lower 

 parts yellow sharply separated from the gray of the chest, 

 no wing-bars. Nest, on the ground, built of dried 

 grasses and vegetable fibre. Egg, white sparingly marked 

 with lavender and sepia black, spots at the larger end. 

 The species breeds from Manitoba south to Minnesota and 

 northern Michigan; it winters in South America. 



The song of the Connecticut Warbler is not likely to 

 be heard beyond the breeding grounds northwest of the 

 Great Lakes, and of course one cannot judge of the char- 

 acter of the song from the metallic chink of the call note 

 in the fall. But the syllabic form as described by Mr. 

 Seton is sufficiently graphic to give one the impression 

 that it must bear an unmistakable resemblance to the 

 dissyllabic calls of the Ovenbird. He described it as 

 sounding like Beecher, beecher, beecher, beecher, etc., and 

 at other times like fru-chapel, fru-chapel, fru-chapel, 

 whoit, this, in its summer home among the larch swamps 

 of Manitoba. 



Mourning Mourning is scarcely a justly chosen ad- 

 jective and consequently not a fair name for 

 Philadelphia so lively and attractive a bird as this, the 

 L. 5.63 inches hood he wears is not black and the song he 

 May loth sings is not sad! The coloring certainly is 

 not mournful, the head and neck is covered, hoodlike, 

 with a soft light slate-blue, which is blackish at the throat, 

 the back, wings, and tail are brownish olive, under parts 

 deep yellow sharply defined with the black below the 

 throat, no wing-bars. Nest, built on or near the ground, 

 of shreds of bark, weeds, and grass, lined with finer grasses, 

 black inner bark, or black rootlets. Egg, ivory or cream 

 white flecked with burnt sienna brown and lavender, 

 the markings heavy on the larger end. This species breeds 

 from central Alberta southeastwardly to the Magdalen 



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