100 BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND AND EASTERN NEW YORK 



Warbler, it may easily be seen by the beginner. It is com- 

 mon in the shrubbery about dwellings, and in its restless 

 course flies from twig to twig, sometimes pursuing an in- 

 sect to the ground at the observer's feet. Both sexes have 

 a habit of keeping the tail spread like a fan, so that the 

 yellow or salmon band is very conspicuous. 



It needs practice to distinguish the song of this species 

 from that of the Yellow Warbler, often its neighbor about 

 our houses. The Eedstart's song is less complicated : wee'- 

 see'-see' is its shortest form ; wee'-see-wee'-see-wee' is an- 

 other. All the phrases are on one key, and are almost never 

 followed by the additional phrase with which the song of 

 the Yellow Warbler ends. The male in his first spring 

 wears the gray and yellow of the female, so that one often 

 hears the song uttered apparently by the female. 



Canadian Waebler. Wilsonia coMadensis 



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Ad. $. — Upper parts ashy gray ; crown blackish, especially 



on the forehead ; breast crossed by a broad band of black spots 



which separate the yellow throat from the yellow belly. Ad. ^ and 



Im. — The blackish crown lacking ; spots on breast faint. ' 



Nest, in mossy banks and under roots. Eggs, white, spotted 

 about the larger end with reddish-brown. 



The Canadian Warbler is a migrant through southern New 

 England and the lower Hudson Valley in the second half 

 of May and in September. As a 

 migrant it is found chiefly in wet 

 woodland, where it keeps rather low 

 in the bushes, though it may occur 

 in dry places, and when singing 

 often mounts fairly high in trees. 

 It breeds from the edge of the 

 Canadian Zone northward, occurring 

 Fig. 8. Canadian Warbler here and there in deep, cool swamps, 



