. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. WARBLERS mitlined; rest of upper parts, uniform olive-Krceii ; the sides of neck and sides of head, similar hut rather more yellowish: primaries and secondaries, purplish-hmwn edged with olive-green : bill, dark brown : iris, brown ; legs and feet, light brownish. AnuLT : Similar to the adult male and often not distinguishable; usu- ally, however, slightly duller in color, with black crown-patch more restricted or obscured by olive-green margins to the feathers; sometimes the black entirely absent, the whole crown, except forehead, bein


. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. WARBLERS mitlined; rest of upper parts, uniform olive-Krceii ; the sides of neck and sides of head, similar hut rather more yellowish: primaries and secondaries, purplish-hmwn edged with olive-green : bill, dark brown : iris, brown ; legs and feet, light brownish. AnuLT : Similar to the adult male and often not distinguishable; usu- ally, however, slightly duller in color, with black crown-patch more restricted or obscured by olive-green margins to the feathers; sometimes the black entirely absent, the whole crown, except forehead, being olive- green, the forehead and above eye. yellow. Nest and Eggs.— Nest: linliedded in ground in The Wilson Warbler is a decidedly busy and restless Warbler full of individuality and cnerj:;y. He is a jaunty, tail-twitchins^ flycatcher, getting his food any way from leaf-searching and trunk- peering to darting out into the air in the style of the Tyrant Flycatchers. His home is in the bushes that border tlie woodlands, or in the un- swampy woods; constructed of swamp grass and lined with fine grass and a few liairs. Eiics : 2 to 4. (lure white, wreathed around larger end with markings of cinnamon and Distribution.— Eastern Nortli .'\merica; breeds from the tree limit in northwestern and central Mackenzie, central Ungava, and Newfoundland south to southern Saskatchewan, northern Minnesota, central Ontario, New Hampshire, Maine, and Nova Scotia; winters in eastern Central America from Guatemala to Costa Rica and occasionally north to Alichuacan; mainly along the Alleghenies. the song belonged, the first observation of the \ell()\v under jiarts and black cap makes the identification certain. In the migrations up and hack from Central America by way of Mexico and the country west of the Alleghenies, Wilson's lllackcap is jirettv uniform in many places, but verv imcertain in other localities. P)Ut almost. Drawing by R. I- Brasher WILSON'S WARBLER (nat.


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