1088 REPOBT OF STATE GEOLOGIST. 



(Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. VII., June, 1882). Mr. I. M. Woodruff 

 observed several specimens in the bushes along the shore of Wolf 

 Lake, near Sheffield, Ind., in May, 1889, where he obtained a speci- 

 men, May 13, 1894. 'Mr. Ruthven Deane informs me they were quite 

 common at English Lake, May 4, 1891. That is the earliest date at 

 which they have been- noted in the State. Although Mr. Nelson re- 

 ported it a rather common migrant in the vicinity of Chicago, more 

 recent observers have not found it so. They usually arrive after the 

 middle of May, and pass northward toward their breeding grounds 

 toward the close of the month. They were noted in Carroll County, 

 May 21, 1883, and 1885, and at Terre Haute, May 17, 1890 (Ever- 

 mann); May 12, 1888 (Blatchley); Bloomington, May 18, 1885 (Boll- 

 man). In Lake County, a specimen was found among the bodies of 

 many kinds of small birds 'that had perished in a storm on Lake Michi- 

 gan, and been cast up by the waves on the shore, May 24, 1891 (Coale). 

 In the fall, they reach northern Indiana early in September, and some- 

 times remain until the latter part of the month. They were found in 

 Lake County, September 5, 1880, and September 25, 1875 (Coale). 



Mr. W. 0. Wallace obtained one specimen in thick woods near 

 Wabash, September 13, 1892. Mr. Ernest E. Thompson found its nest 

 in a log near Carberry, Manitoba, June 21, 1883. I have given a 

 description of it above. The ordinary song suggests the syllables, 

 beecher-beecher-beecher-beecher-beecher-leecher. "It is somewhat like 

 the song of the Oven-bird, but different in being the same pitch 

 throughout instead of beginning in a whisper and increasing the em- 

 phasis and strength with each pair of notes to the last." It also has 

 another song, nearly resembling the syllables, fru-chapple, fru-chapple, 

 fru-chapple, whait, which is uttered in a loud, ringing voice (Proc. U. 

 S. N. M., Vol. XIII., 1890, pp. 621, 622). 



When with us I have never heard it singing. 



Subgenus GEOTHLYPIS Cabanis. 



286. (t>79). Geothlypis Philadelphia (WILS). 



Mourning- Warbler. 

 Synonym, PHILADELPHIA WARBLER. 



Adult Male. Above, plain olive-green; the head, and sides of the 

 neck, bluish-gray; a black spot in front of eye; eyelids, blackish; wings, 

 and tail, unmarked; below, throat and breast, black, the feathers more 

 or less bordered with ashy; other under parts, yellow. Adult Female. 

 Similar, with head smoky-gray, more or less tinged with olive; the 

 throat, pale yellowish -gray; eyelids, and an indistinct mark behind the 

 eye, yellowish. 



