6'. H. Meri'htin — lilrds of ('on/iecticnt. 2;{ 



Its iK'sl was louiid at Sing Sing, Woytcla'tor Co., X. V., in .linii' 

 1875, by Mr. A. K. Fislior,* aiul Mr. E. P. Bickndl writes iiu' llial 

 lie socufod a male at Kivonlalo, in the same county, May ;{(), ls7G. 

 liiraud found it on Long Island many years ago.f Wilson says, "This 

 species is seldom seen among the high branches, hut loves to fre(iueiit 

 low l>ushes and cane swamps, and is an active, sprightly l)ird. Its 

 notes are loud, and in thi-ees, resembling tweedle, tweedle, tirccdh'. . . 

 ... It ai)peared to nu' to be a restless, fighting species, almost 

 ahvays engaged in pursuing some of its fellows ; though this might 

 have been occasioned by its numbers, and the particulai' season of 

 s})ring, Avhen love and jealousy rage with violence in the breasts of 

 the feathered tenants of the grove; who experience all the ardency of 

 those passions no less than their lord and sovereign man. "J 



Since writing the above I learn from Mr. J. G. Ely of Lyme, Conn., 

 that he has "shot one Kentucky Warbler." 



52. G-eothlypis trichas (Liime) Cabanis. Maryland Yellow-throat. 



A common summer resident, breeding plentifully. Arrives early in 

 May (May 5), remaining till late in the fall (Nov. 1st, 187(3). 



53. G-eothlypis Philadelphia (Wilsou) Baird. Mourning Warbler. 



A rather rare niigrunt, but ]n"obal)ly more abundant than commonly 

 supposed — not coming till after most of the warblers are gone. Have 

 only seen it in spring. Mr. Bragg shot a male on May 24th, 187<i, in low 

 bushes. On the following day Mr. Dayan secured two males ; and I 

 saw several on the morning of the 27th. Mr. Thomas Osborne lias 

 seen it as early as May 15th (May 15 and 17, 1876). I shot a beautiful 

 nuile near Savin Rock, Conn., May 25th, 1877. Mr. Griniiell tells me 

 that he killed a pair ( S and 9 ) late in May, 1875, near ^lilford, Conn. 

 Mr. J. N. Clark, also, has killed it, late in May, at Saybrook, Conn. 

 At Easthamptou, Mass., in the spring of 1874, I shot two specimens : 

 " The first. May 27th, in a brush-heap; and the other, May 28th, on a 

 large birch tree." Large numbers of them breed regularly, in suitable 

 localities, in Lewis and Herkimer Counties, in northern New York. 

 It also breeds abundantly about Umbagog Lake, Oxfoi-d Co., Maine 

 (Brewster), and in Miiniesota (T. Martin Trippe), even as i'ar west as 

 "the Red River, between Dakota and Minnesota" (Coues). 



* Am. Nat., vol. ix, No. 10, p. 573. Oct., 1875. 



f Birds of Long Island. By J. P. Giraud. Jr., p. 50. 1844. 



:]: Wilson's American Ornithology. Vol. ii, p. l")l-2. \'.<:'>\. 



