BIRDS OF KANSAS. 589 



humble it may be, it has a soothing, soul-stirring, indescribable 

 charm. On their return they are silent, barring their feeble call 

 note, "Tsip." 



I have met with the birds, in the early summer months, in the 

 high mountains of Colorado, where they occasionally breed, but 

 failed to find their nests. They are placed in a depression in 

 the ground, usually beneath a bush, and are composed almost 

 wholly of leaves and grasses, and lined with the finer grasses 

 and hairs. Eggs four or five, . 60x.48; white, or creamy white, 

 speckled with reddish brown and pale lavender, thickest about 

 the larger end; in form, oval. 



Sylvania canadensis (LINN.). 



CANADIAN WARBLER. 

 PLATE XXXIII. 



Migratory in the eastern part of the State; rare. Arrive the 

 last of April to first of May; begin to return in August; leave 

 in September. 



B. 214, 215. R. 127. C. 149. G. 62, 302. U. 686. 



HABITAT. Eastern North America; north to Newfoundland, 

 southern Labrador and Lake Winnipeg; west to Minnesota, 

 eastern Nebraska and Texas; breeding from southern New Eng- 

 land, Wisconsin, etc., northward; south in winter, through east- 

 ern Mexico and Central America, into northern South America. 



SP. CHAR. "Upper parts bluish ash; a ring round the eye, with a line run- 

 ning to the nostrils, and the whole under part (except the tail coverts, which are 

 white), bright yeilow. Centers of the feathers in the anterior half of the crown, 

 the cheeks, continuous with a line on the side of the neck to the breast, and a 

 series of spots across the fore part of the breast, black. Tail feathers unspotted. 

 Female similar, with the black of the head and breast less distinct; in the young 

 obsolete." 



Stretch of 

 Length. wing. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Bill. 



Male 5.50 8.00 2.55 2.35 .75 .40 



Female... 5.25 7.65 2.40 2.20 .73 .38 



Iris dark brown; bill dusky, pale beneath; legs and feet 

 greenish flesh color; claws pale brown. 



This species is quite common east of the Mississippi River. 

 Rather retiring, solitary birds, that frequent the undergrowths 

 in the deep, low woodlands, preferring for their haunts the 



