_Wilsonia canadensis. Case 8, Fig. 53_
Above gray, no white in wings or tail; breast with
a necklace of black spots, paler and less numerous
in the female. L. 5-1/2.
_Range._ Nests from Massachusetts and central
Minnesota northward, south in the mountains to
Tennessee; winters in the tropics.
Washington, very common T.V., May 5-June 2; July
31-Sept. 25. Ossining, common T.V., May 6-June 2;
Aug. 10-Oct. 11. Cambridge, common, May 12-30,
rare, Sept. 1-15; rare S.R. N. Ohio, common T.V.,
Apl. 28-May 27; Sept. 1-18. Glen Ellyn, common
T.V., May 5-June 6; Aug. 15-Sept. 22. SE. Minn.,
common T.V., May 8-; Aug. 18-Sept. 5.
The Canadian Warbler haunts the lower growth of deciduous forests. It is
"a sprightly, wide-awake, fly-snapping Warbler, vivid in movement and in
song" (Thayer). "The song is liquid, uncertain, varied, bright and
sweet" (Farwell). It nests on the ground early in June, laying 4-5 eggs
much like those of Wilson's Warbler.