679- Mourning Warbler. Oporornis phila. 

 delphia. 



Range. — Eastern United States, brooding froui 



nortliorn New England, Pennsylvania, (Philadel- 

 phia) and Nebraska northward. 



Very similar to the last but with 

 no eye ring and a black patch on 

 the breast. The habits and nesting 

 habits of this species are very sim- 

 ilar to those of agiJis, the nest be- 

 ing on or very close to the ground. 

 White With the exception of on mountain 



ranges it breeds chiefly north of our borders. 



The eggs are wliite, specked with reddish brown. 



Size .72 X .55. They cannot be distinguished from 



those of the last. Data. — Listowell, Ontario, June 



5, 189S. Nest in a tiift of swamp grass in low 



ground; not very neatly made of dry leaves, 



grasses and hair. Collector, Wm. L. Kelts. (Cran- 



dall collection.) 



680. Macgili.ivray Warblek. Oporornis 

 tolmiei. 



Range. — Western United States from the Rock- 

 ies to the Pacific, breeding north to British Co- 

 lumbia; winters in Mexico and Central America. 

 Similar to the last but with white 

 spots on the upper and lower eye- 

 lids, black lores, and the black 

 patch on the breast mixed with 

 gray. These ground inhabiting 

 birds are found in tangled thickets 

 Wliite ^jj^ shrubbery where they nest at 



low elevations, from one to five feet from the 

 ground. Their nests are made of grasses and 

 shreds of bark, lined with hair and finer grasses, 

 and the oggs arc white, specked, spotted and blotched owith shades of brown 

 and neutral tints; size .72 x .52. Data. — Sonoma, Cal., May 17, 1S97. A small 

 nest, loosely made of grasses (wild oats) lined with finer grasses; placed in 

 blackberry vines 14 inches from the ground in a slough in the valley. 



Mourning Warljler.s 



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