_Oporornis philadelphia. Case 8, Figs. 75, 76_
Male without white eye-ring; and with a black
breast veiled with gray. L. 5-1/2.
_Range._ Nests from northern New York and Michigan
to Canada, south in the mountains to West
Virginia; winters in the tropics.
Washington, very rare T.V., May 6-30; Aug. 17-Oct.
1. Ossining, rare T.V., May 28-29; Aug. 18-Oct. 1.
Cambridge, rare T.V., May 22-June 5; Sept. 12-25.
N. Ohio, tolerably common T.V., May 5-28. Glen
Ellyn, rather rare T.V., May 18-June 8; Aug. 17-.
SE. Minn., uncommon T.V., May 13-; Aug. 1-Sept.
10.
The Mourning Warbler is one of the rarer Warblers which, by good
fortune, we may occasionally see toward the end of the spring migration.
It is usually found in the lower growth, being a brush and tangle
haunter of woods and clearings. Its song, which is described as clear
and ringing, is uttered frequently, often from a dead limb. The nest is
built in briars or bushes within a foot or two of the ground. The eggs,
laid in the first half of June, are white with a few brownish spots at
the larger end.