374 WOOD WARBLERS. 



686. Sylvania canadensis (Lint,.). CANADIAN WARBLER. (Fig. 



109.) Ad. $ .Upper parts, wings, and lull gray ; no wing-bars or tail-patches ; 

 crown spotted with black; line from the bill to the eye and under parts 

 yellow ; sides of the neck black ; a necklace of black spots across the breast ; 

 under tail-coverts white ; bill with evident bristle at its base. Ad. 9 and 

 Im. Similar, but with no black on the head or sides of the throat; necklace 

 indicated by dusky spots. L., 5-61 ; W., 2-53 ; T., 2-23 ; B. from N., -31. 



Range. Eastern JS'orth America; breeds from northern Michigan and 

 Massachusetts to Manitoba and Labrador, and southward in Alleghunies tu 

 North Carolina; winters in tropics. 



Washington, very common T. V., May 5 to 27 ; Aug. 7 to Sept. 25. Sing 

 Sing, common T. V., May 6 to June 2; Aug. 10 to Oct. 11. Cambridge, com- 

 mon T. V., May 18 to 28 ; Sept. 1 to 20. 



N&t, of strips of bark, bits of dead wood, and moss wrapped in leaves, and 

 lined with tine rootlets, in mossy banks or under roots. >/$*, four to five, 

 white, speckled and spotted, chiefly at the larger end, with rufous or rufous- 

 brown, '66 x '51. 



Although when associated with other migrating Warblers this bird 

 may be found in woodland of varied character, it prefers low, wet 

 woods, in which, like Wilson's Black-cap, it frequents the lower growth. 

 Like that bird also it is an expert flycatcher. 



Its song is sweet, loud, and spirited. Thompson writes it " rup-it- 

 che, rup-it-che, rup-it-chitt-it lit." 



687. Setophaga ruticilla. (Linn.). AMERICAN REDSTART. (See 

 Fig. 53, c.) Ad. $ . Upper parts, throat, 'and breast shining black ; basal half 

 of the wing-feathers salmon, end half and wing-coverts black ; basal two 

 thirds of all but the middle tail-feathers salmon, end third and middle feath- 

 ers black; sides of the breast and flanks deep reddish salmon; belly white, 

 tinged with salmon ; bill with prominent bristles at its base. Ad. 9 . Salmon 

 of the & replaced by dull yellow; head grayish; back ashy, with a greenish 

 tinge ; under parts, except where marked with yellow, white. Im. Resemble 

 the 9 ; the acquires his full plumage the third year, and the second year 

 has the plumage mottled with black. L., 5-41; W., 2-57; T., 2-27: B. from 

 N., -27. 



Range. North America; breeds from Kansas and North Carolina north 

 to Labrador and Fort Simpson ; winters in the tropics. 



Washington, very abundant T. V., Apl. 18 to May 28 ; Aug. 19 to Sept. 25 ; 

 a few breed. Sing Sing, common S. R., May 1 to Oct. 3. Cambridge, very 

 common S. R., May 5 to Sept 20. 



Rest, of fine strips of bark, leafstalks, and plant down, firmly interwoven, 

 lined with tendrils and fine rootlets, in the crotch of a sapling, five to twenty 

 feet up. Eggs, four to five, grayish white or bluish white, spotted and blot died, 

 chiefly at the larger end, with cinnamon- or olive-brown, 'OS x :>. 



If this active, brilliantly colored inhabitant of woodlands was as 

 rare as he is beautiful, we would consider a meeting with him an event 



