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Range (Eastern North America breeds) (XXXXVI)

Eastern North America; breeds from Kansas and Virginia northward to Manitoba and Labrador, southward along the Alleghanies to South Carolina; winters from Florida southward.

Washington, very common S. R., Apl. 20 to Oct. 15. Sing Sing, common S. R., Apl. 27 to Oct. 10. Cambridge, abundant S. R., May 6 to Sept. 15. Nest, bulky, covered, the entrance at one side, of coarse grasses, weed stalks, leaves, and rootlets, on the ground. Eggs, four to five, white, speckled or spotted with cinnamon- or rufous-brown markings, sometimes finely distributed, sometimes confluent about the larger end, 80 × 60. During the nesting season Oven-birds are among our commonest woodland birds. We hear them everywhere; one singer scarcely ceases before another begins. But when the song period has passed how WOOD W ARBLERS.

FIG. 102.-Black-poll Warbler.

FIG. 106. Maryland Yellow-throat.

FIG. 103. Prairie Warbler.

FIG. 107.- Wilson's Warbler.

FIG. 104.-Oven-bird.

FIG. 108.-Hooded Warbler.

FIG. 105. Kentucky Warbler.

FIG. 109. Canadian Warbler.