No. 20.] THE BIRDS OF CONNECTICUT. 165 



Spring migration. Earliest record. New Haven, May ii, 



1893, 1900; Portland, May 8, 1894, 1905. Latest record. New 

 Haven, May 22, 1893, 1907, June 3, 1907 (A. A. S.) ; Portland, 

 June I, 1907. 



Fall migration. Earliest record. New Haven, Aug. 27, 1907. 

 Latest record. New Haven, Sept. 22, 1904; Portland, Sept. 27, 



1893. 



This bird frequents chiefly thick shrubbery in its passage 

 through the state. 



Wilsonia canadensis (Linnaeus). Canada Warbler. 



A common late spring migrant in May, and much rarer late 

 summer migrant in August; undoubtedly breeds more or less 

 regularly in the northwestern part of the state, although few nests 

 have been taken. 



Spring migration. Earliest record. New Haven, May 8, 

 1894; Portland, May i, 1905. Latest record. New Haven, 

 June I, 1898, 1907, June 3, 1907 (A. A. S.) ; Portland, June 10, 

 1907; Milford, June 3, igoo (J. C. A. M.). 



Fall migration. Earliest record. New Haven, Aug. 12, 1904. 

 Latest record. New Haven, Sept. i, 1903; Portland, Sept. i, 

 1892; Litchfield, Sept. 9, 1892 (E. S. W.) ; East Hartford, Sept. 

 16, 1885 (W. E. T.). 



Summer records. June 15, 1885, June 9, 1891, Aug. 2, 1893, 

 June 13, 14, 1905, Litchfield (L. B. W. and E. S. W.) ; June 15, 



1894, near New Haven, a male with a female and young seen 

 (A. H. v., the male taken by L. B. B.) ; July 3, 1896, Norfolk, 

 young taken by W. E. T. (in coll. of J. H. S.) ; June 8, 1900, Kent 

 (I^ B. B.) ; June 11, 1900, Warren (L. B. B.) ; June 12, 1900, 

 Romford (L. B. B.) ; June 18, 20, 1904, Salisbury (J. H. S. and 

 L. B. B.) ; early July, 1906, Salisbury (H. K. J.). 



Nest record. May 30, 1889, Northford, nest containing five 

 eggs in a raspberry bush in a pasture, male identified while on the 

 nest (A. M. Linsley).^ 



As all of the birds noted above in June kept closely to the 

 locality in which they were first seen as long as they were ob- 

 served, and as the males taken were certainly breeding birds, this 

 species must be entered as a summer resident in this state. Dur- 



^Oologist, vi, 12, p. 2ZZ- 



