374 woon w.\ 1mm: Its. 
     
    
   
   
    
     686. Sylvania canadensis (Liam). CANADIAN “'ARBLEK. (Fig. 
     
     Niki All. 5 .~L'pper parts, wings, and tail gray; no wing~bars or tail—patches; 
     
     crown spotted with black; line from the bill to the eye and under parts 
     
     yellow; sides of the neck black; a necklace of black spots across Hui breast ,' 
     
     under tail~eoverts white; hill with evident bristle at its base. Ad. 9 «ml 
     
     Inn’similar, but with no black on the head or sides of the throat; necklace 
     
     indicated by dusky spots. 14., MS] ; W ‘ :3; B. from N., '31. 
     
    

    
     11)ILI1f/€.!l‘:tlstcl'll North America: breeds l'rom northern Michigan and 
     
     Massachusetts to Manitoba and Labrador. and southward in Alleghauies to 
     
     North Carolina; winters in tropics. 
     
    

    
     \Vashington, \ery common T. \'., May 5 to :27; Aug. 7 to Sept. :25. Sing 
     
     Sing,eommon T. \'., May U to June 2; Aug. 10 to Oct. 11. Cambridge, coni— 
     
     lnon T. \'., May 18 to 25; Sept. 1 to :0. 
     
    

    
     Nest, of strips of bark, bits of dead wood, and moss wrapped in leaves, and 
     
     lined with tine rootlets, in mossy banks or under roots. Jig/gs, four to tire, 
     
     white, speckled and spotted, ehietly at, the larger end, with rut'ous 01' rufous~ 
     
     brown, '06 x '51. 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
     Although when associated with other migrating \Varblers this bird 
     
     may be found in woodland of varied character, it prefers low, wet, 
     
     woods, in which, like Wilson’s Black-cap, it frequents the lower growth. 
     
     Like that bird also it. is an expert flycatcher. 
     
    

    
     Its song is sweet, loud. and spirited. Thompson writes it “rap-I'l- 
     
     clie, rap—it-Che, 7‘iI])-it-(-ltilt-1't M.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     687. Setophaga. ruticilla. (Linn). AMERICAN Rensmm. (See 
     
     Fig. 53, r.) .1141. 6 .filfpper parts. throat, and breast shining black; basal half 
     
     of the wing—feathers salmon. cnd half and wing—eoverts black; basal two 
     
     thirds of' all but the middle tail—feathers salmon, end third and middle feath— 
     
     ers black; sides of‘ the breast and flanks deep reddish salmon; belly white, 
     
     tinged with salmon; hill with prominent bristles at its base. Ar]. 9 .—Salmon 
     
     ot'the 6 replaced by dull yellow; head grayish; back ashy, with a greenish 
     
     tinge; under parts. except where marked with yellow. white. lm.#Resemhle 
     
     the 9 ; the a acquires his full plumage the third year. and the second year 
     
     has the plumage mottled with black. l... 541: W.. 2'57; T., 2‘27: B. from 
     
     N, "37. 
     
    

    
     Hinge—North America; breeds from Kansas and North ('arolina north 
     
     to Labrador and Fort Simpson; winters in the tropics. 
     
    

    
     “'ashinflton. very abundant T. V.. Apl. is to May : Aug. 15' to Sept. 25; 
     
     a few breed. Sing Sing. eommon S. It, May 1 to Oct. 3. Cambridge, very 
     
     common .'\‘. 11.. May 7) to Sept. 20. 
     
    

    
     A'mt, of fine strips ot' bark, leat' stalks. and plant down, firmly interwoven, 
     
     lined with tendrils and line rootlets, in the eroteh ot' a sapling. tire to twunty 
     
     feet up. [fag/s. four to fire. grayish white or bluish white. spotted and hlotehed, 
     
     chiefly at the larger end, with einnamow or olive—brown. wls‘ x ‘50. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     If this active, brilliantly colored inhabitant, of woodlands was as 
     
     rare as he is beautiful, we would consider a meeting with him an event 
     
    
   
   
    
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