250 CONNECTICUT WARBLER. 
ground, making its artfully concealed nest among the low herbage and feeding in the 
undergrowth, the male uttering his pretty song from some old log or low bush. His 
song recalls that of the Cardinal, but is much weaker; and the ordinary note is a soft 
pchip, somewhat like the common call of the Pewee (Sayornis Phoebe). Considering its 
great abundance, the nest of this species is extraordinarily difficult to find; at least 
this has been the writer’s experience, and he has come to the conclusion that the female 
must slyly leave the nest at the approach of the intruder and run beneath the herbage 
until a considerable distance from the nest, when joined by her mate, the pair by their 
evident anxiety mislead the collector as to its location. However this may be, the 
writer has never found a nest of this species except by accident, although he has 
repeatedly searched every square foot of ground within a radius of many yards of the 
spot where a pair showed most uneasiness of his presence.” 
The nest is similar to that of the Maryland Yellow-throat and very bulky. It is 
. invariably placed under a shrub, a luxuriant perennial, a fern, or a weed stalk, and is 
built of leaves in which it is also imbedded, and of old grasses, being lined with fine rootlets 
and horse hair. The eggs, four to five in number, are clear white, often creamy-white, 
speckled, chiefly at the larger end, with umber and dark brown. 
The summer home of the Kentucky Warbler are the Eastern States, chiefly west 
of the Alleghanies and thence to the Plains, north occasionally to the Great Lakes and 
southern New England. It winters in Cuba and probably also in other West Indian 
islands, in south-eastern Mexico and Central America to Panama. 
NAMES: Kentucky WaRBLER, Kentucky Vellow-throat. 
SCIENTIFIC NAMES: Sylvia formosa Wils. (1811). Myiodioctes formosus Aud. (1858). Oporornis for- 
mosus Baird (1858). GEOTHLYPIS FORMOSA Ridgw. (1885). 
DESCRIPTION: “Adult male. Upper parts and sides, dark olive-green. Crown and sides of the head, includ- 
ing a triangular patch from behind the eye down the side of the neck, black; the feathers of the 
crown narrowly lunulated at tips with dark ash. A line from nostrils over the eye and encircling it 
(except anteriorly), with the entire under-parts, bright yellow. No white on tail. Female, similar, 
with less black on head. 
“Length, 5.00 inches; wing, 2.95; tail, 2.25 inches.— The adults in autumn are exactly the same 
as in spring.” (Ridgway.) 
CONNECTICUT WARBLER. 
Geothlypis agilis GREGG. 
.The Connecticur WarBLER is one of the rarest of the family. I have seen it 
‘during the migrations only, especially in the fall. In the latter season it is sometimes 
quite abundant in Wisconsin and Illinois. Mr. Ernest E. Thompson gives the following 
description of the home and breeding of this Warbler in the ‘“‘Auk” (Vol. I, p. 192—198): 
“A few miles south of Carberry, Manitoba, is a large spruce bush, and in the middle of 
it is a wide tamarack swamp. This latter is a gray, mossy bog, luxuriant only with 
pitcher plants and Drosere. At regular distances, as though planted by the hand of 
man, grow the slim, straight tamaracks, grizzled with moss, but not dense, nor at all 
crowded; their light leafage casts no shade. They always look as though they were 
just about to end, though the swamp really continues for miles—the same dank, gray 
waste. 
