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Seton as resembling the words " beecher, beecher, beecher, beecher, beecher ";. 

 at other times like the syllables " fru-chappelle, fru-chappelle, fru-chappelle, 

 whoit." As several careful observers, notably Maurice Blake and the 

 late Frank Antes of Canandaigua, as well as Lawrence Achilles and Tom 

 Taylor of Rochester and Ernest H. Short of Chili, have reported seeing 

 birds which they felt sure were examples of this species migrating with 

 other spiring warblers toward the northeast, I made a very careful hunt 



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for the Connecticut warbler among the spruce and tamarack bogs and 

 swamps of the higher Adirondacks, but entirely without success. New 

 York evidently lies outside its breeding range and any spring migrants 

 found in the State would undoubtedly be only stragglers from the main 

 route of migration. 



Oporornis Philadelphia (Wilson) 



Mourning Warbler 



PUte 100 



Sylvia Philadelphia Wilson. Amer. Om. i8io. 2:101. pi. "14, fig. 6 

 Trichas Philadelphia DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 81, fig. 122 

 Oporornis Philadelphia A. 0. U. Check List. Ed. 3. igio. p. 321. No- 



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Philadelphia, named for Philadelphia, near which Wilson discovered the species 



Description. Very similar in size and shape to the Connecticut 

 warbler. Adult male: Head and neck bluish slate; the lores blackish; 

 the throat showing blackish feathers among the slaty gray, becoming quite 

 black on the breast where it gives way suddenly to the deep yellow of the 

 lower breast and belly; sides strongly tinged with the color of the back; 

 no white eye ring. Adult female: Has the bluish slate of the head and 

 neck lighter and tinged with brownish; the olive green upper parts and 

 yellow under parts duller than the male's. Young in the fall: Similar 

 to the adult, but lacking. the bluish slate of the head and neck and the males 

 lacking the blackish seen in the adults in .spring. The young females 

 being nearly uniform olive green above and yellow below. Young also 

 show an obscure whitish eye ring. 



Length 5.63 inches; extent 7.60-8.15; wing 2.40-2.60; tail 2-2.25; bill 

 .45; tarsus .80. 



Distribution. Breeds from central Alberta, southern Saskatchewan, 

 southwestern Keewatin, Nova Scotia and the Magdalenes south to central 



