AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 5 



NEST AND EGGS. 



Nests of the Connecticut Warbler have only, as yet, been found in 

 Manitoba and Ontario and eggs of this species are among the most 

 rare of any of our North American birds. One of the nests found in 

 Manitoba was in a swamp embedded in the moss; the nest was made of 

 dried grass and the four eggs were white, sparingly sprinkled, chiefly 

 about the large end with specks of brown and black. Size .80 x .56. 



HABITS. 



Connecticut Warblers are seen in the United States only as migrants 

 and the route that they take in passing through our country seems to 

 be subject to many variations; some Falls they are very abundant, that 

 is you might see twenty or thirty of them in a day, while the next year 

 they may not appear at all; at least this is the case in Worcester County 

 and I understand that it is in other localities. I have never seen but 

 three in the spring, they seeming to take an entirely different route in 

 returning to their breeding ground from that taken on their journey 

 south. They are met with in low wet land, just such as is frequented 

 by the Maryland Yellow-throats, and attention is usually called to them 

 by a sharp metallic chip. However they do not appear to like obser- 

 vation for if they are noticed they quickly slink out of sight among the 

 weeds and underbrush. 



MOURNING WARBLER. 



A. O. U. No. 679. (Geotlilypis Philadelphia). 



RANGE. 



Eastern United States breeding from northern New England, New 

 York and Illinois northward into Canada. Winters in northern South 

 America. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Length 5.2 inches. The adults of this species are alike in plumage 

 and are both very similiar to the last but lack the eye ring entirely, and 

 always have some black feathers in the breast, and in full plumage have 

 a large black patch sharply defined against the yellow underparts. 

 Young birds are similar in plumage to the female and young of the 

 Connecticut Warbler but can be distinguished by the shorter and more 

 rounded wings, those of the preceding species being longer and more 

 pointed. 



