Warblers
SONG-BIRDS.
and also in the vicinity of Saybrook. It has a particular fondness for our Connecticut swamps, where the pink azaleas and laurels crown the intersecting banks, and it usually nests at the time when the azalea fades, and the laurel comes into bloom.
Wilson's Warbler: Sylvania pusilla.
Black-capped Warbler.
- Length:
- 4.75 inches.
- Male and Female:
- Black cap. Above olive-yellow, olive-yellow edgings to wings and tail. Under parts rich yellow, shades to olive on sides. Line over eye and forehead deep yellow. Bill dark above lower mandible and feet light. Female without the black cap.
- Song:
- An indistinct warble.
- Season:
- An uncommon migrant, seen here in May.
- Breeds:
- Chiefly north of the United States.
- Nest:
- On the ground.
Eggs:
- 4-5, white, heavily spotted and sprinkled with mauve and lilac.
- Range:
- Eastern North America, west to and including the Rocky Mountains, north to Hudson's Bay Territory and Alaska, migrating south to Eastern Mexico and Central America.
This striking bird ranges quite freely through the state as a migrant, but little is known of its New England breeding possibilities. Mr. H. D. Minot found its nest on Pike's Peak at an altitude of 11,000 feet, almost at the timber line.
Canadian Warbler: Sylvania canadensis.
- Length:
- 5.25-5.50 inches.
- Male:
- Above ash-blue, crown spotted with arrow-shaped, black marks blending on the brow. Below pure yellow, with a shory necklace of black longitudinal bars across the breast. Yellow line over eye, black patch under it. Bill dark, feet flesh-coloured.
- Female:
- Paler all through, and the black obscured.
- Song:
- A fine sibilant chirp, reminding one of a canary's song, but broken and incomplete." (Nehrling.)
- Season:
- Common migrant in the latter half of May.
- Breeds:
- Casually in New England, and north to the tree limit.
- Nest:
- Of dry grass and leaves on the ground.
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