DESCRIPTIVE LIST 303 



A specimen in the flesh was received at the State Museum May 27, 1910, from 

 Miss M. E. Huger of Highlands. The bird had been caught by a cat a day or two 

 previously. 



"During the spring migration the Connecticut Warbler seems to be confined to the Mis- 

 sissippi Valley, where, at this season, as well as in the fall, it is generally considered a rare bird. 

 In its return migration, however, it is often common in the Atlantic States. At this time they 

 may usually be found in low, damp woods with abundant undergrowth, though not infrequeytly 

 they are flushed from weedy growths bordering hedgerows some distance from the woods. Then 

 are now excessively fat, no other warbler, as far as I am aware, approaching them in this respect. 

 While, locally, Connecticut Warblers seem to come in flights, being common some years and rare 

 others, the census of lighthouse-striking warblers shows that the bird is a regular autumnal 

 visitor. 



"According to Ernest Seton, who alone has found the Connecticut breeding, the bird, in Mani- 

 toba, summers in tamarac swamps. Gault's observations in Aitkin County, Minn., indicate 

 the breeding of the species in similar localities at that place, while the taking of fledglings by 

 Warren, on August 10, near Palmer, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, considerably extends 

 the probable nesting range of the species. Warren remarks that at this point he saw over fifty 

 Connecticut Warblers on August 29, an observation which suggests that the species is much 

 more common in the Mississippi Valley than existing records would lead us to believe." (Chap- 

 man's The Warblers of North America.) 



FIG. 247. MOURNING WARBLER. 



307. Oporornis Philadelphia (Wils.). MOURNING WARBLER. 



The Mourning Warbler, is bright olive-green, clear yellow below; head ashy; throat and breast 

 mixed ash-gray and black. Female and fall birds like the corresponding stage of the preceding; 

 that is, with the throat whitish or buffy and the breast brownish gray, but distinguished by 

 the shorter wing and the absence of an orbital ring. L., 5.63; W., 2.56; T., 2.13; B. from N., .32. 



Mrs. Donald Wilson, of Andrews, Cherokee County, reports having seen full- 

 plumaged specimens of this species at Andrews. As it is known to breed in the 

 mountains of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, it is of course possible that more 

 complete and thorough observations may show that it breeds also in the moun- 

 tains of North Carolina. 



Genus Geothlypis (Cab.) 



308. Geothlypis trichas trichas (Linn.}. MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT. 



Description. Olive-green above; forehead and broad mask extending down sides of head and 

 neck, jet black; breast and under tail-coverts yellow. Extreme measurements of 88 Raleigh 

 specimens: L., 4.60-5.30; W., 1.87-2.37; T., 1.68-2.25. 



Range. Eastern North America, wintering in South Atlantic and Gulf States and southward. 



Range in North Carolina. Whole State in summer; occasionally seen in winter in the east. 



The Maryland Yellow-throat, which is probably known by sight to more of our 

 people than any other small warbler, arrives in central North Carolina about the 



