_Vermivora peregrina. Case 8, Fig. 64_
Adult male in spring with a grayish blue crown and
white underparts; female and young bright
olive-green above, yellowish below; no wing-bars.
L. 5.
_Range._ Nests from northern New England
northward; winters in the tropics.
Washington, T.V., rare in May; occasionally
common, Aug. 31-Nov. 30. Ossining, rare T.V., May
22-27; Aug. 22-Oct. 2. Cambridge, rare T.V., May
15-25; Sept. N. Ohio, common T.V., May 4-25; Sept.
10-Oct. 10. Glen Ellyn, common T.V., Apl. 30-June
6; July 29-Oct. 9. SE. Minn., common T.V., Apl.
30-; Sept. 30-.
A dull-colored little Warbler which we know as a rather rare migrant,
associated with the traveling companies of its family on their northward
and southward journeys. The song is described by Mrs. Farwell as
noticeable but not musical and resembling that of the Chipping Sparrow.