370 W001) WARBLERS.

eies. "Swamp" or " 'l‘amarac Warbler." or " Bog Black-throat," would have been much more truly descriptive.

In the eold. b may tamarae swamps of Manitoba, where I found it breeding. it was the only one of the family. and almost the only bird, whose voiee broke the silence of those gray wastes. Its loud song was much like the "feat/HT, true/1w" chant of the (tven-bird. but it also uttered another, which I can recall to mind by the aid of the syllables "fl't’l‘-('/l((])])/€, j'Iwe-rlmp/ilr. j'rre-rlmpple, wuorr."

The nest was placed on the ground, or. rather. in the moss which everywhere covered the ground to a depth ot‘ a foot or two, and was composed of fine vegetable fibers.

This species has somewhat. the manners of the Vireos but is much more active and sprightly in its movements. During the migrations it is generally found on or near the ground. in the uiulergrowth of low, damp woods. and also in bordering. weedy fields. where it some- times announces its presence by a sharp pee/t. ERNEST E. THOMPSON.

679. Geothlypis philadelphia. ( ll'z'lxfil. Morxxixo “flunuam.

All. :5 .—llcad. neck. and throat bluish gray. dung/[11y to [llllC/L' ML [116 [H‘eflA‘t ; no white eye—ring; rest of upper parts, wings. and tail olive-green: no wing— Siinilar. but upper parts

bars or tail—patches: belly yellow. All. 9 mu! /m. olive-green lightly g‘iyer on the head; breast grayish7 throat whiter. I... 5'63; W.. ‘2' ; T.. 2'13: B. from IV. ‘32.

Ii‘enzarl‘s.—'l‘l1is speeies bears a general resemblance to the preceding, but may always be distinguished from it by the absence ot' a white eye—ring.

1mIrma—Eastern North America: breeds from eastern Nebraska, northern New York, and Nova Seotia northward, and southward along the Alleghanies to Pennsylvania; winters in the, tt‘opii's.

Washington. very rare T. \'., May 15 to 30; Aug. Sing Sing. rare T. V., May 2o” to 21); Aug. 15 to (let. 1. Cambridge. rare '1‘. \'.. May :2 to June 6; Sept. 1:! to 30.

first, of strips of bark and other fibrous inateri: near the ground. Iz'yyx. t'our, white. sprinkled with reddish dots nearthe

ls. lined with hair. on or

larger endY ‘71 x will Davie).

The Mourning Warbler inhabits the undergrowth. choosing silli- ations not unlike those selected by the Maryland Yellow-throat.

“ lts common song consists of a simple, clear, warbling whistle. re- sembling the syllables ’lri’zfi, ‘lrfli, 'trr’u}. ‘lrti, 700, the voice rising on the first three syllables and falling on the last two. '«

“Sometimes. when otherwise occupied. the first, or first two, syl- lables are omitted. All through the breeding season. and till late in July, they hav . a very aha ‘aeteristie habit of perehing. at frequent in- tervals during the day. on some b ‘aneh, gene‘all_’ a dead one, and commonly ten or fifteen feet from the ground. and singing for half an hour at a time " (Merriam, Birds of Connecticut. p. 24).