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Range (North America breeds) (XI)

North America; breeds from British Columbia, Minnesota, and Nova Scotia northward; winters in Central America.

Washington, rather common T. V., May 8 to 23; Aug. 28 to Sept. 15. Sing Sing, tolerably common T. V., May 9 to 30; Aug. 10 to Sept. 9. Cambridge, common T. V., May 12 to 25; Sept. 1 to 20. Nest, of leaves and grasses, lined with fine grasses and hairs, on the ground. Eggs, four to five, white, speckled with cinnamon-rufous and lavender-gray, 59 x 48 (Davie).

The Black-cap frequents the lower woodland growth, and is generally found near water. Like other members of this genus, it has decided talents as a flycatcher, and captures much of its prey on the wing, darting out into the air, but does not, like a true Flycatcher, return to the same perch.

Its song is compared by Minot to that of the Redstart or Yellow Warbler, while Nuttall writes it "'tsh-'tsh-'tsh-'tshea," and to Goss it sounds like "zee-zee-zee-zee-e."

WOOD WARBLERS. 686. Sylvania canadensis (Linn.). CANADIAN WARBLER. (Fig. 109.) Ad. 8.-Upper parts, wings, and tail gray; no wing-bars or tail-patches; crown spotted with black; line from the bill to the eye and under parts yellow; sides of the neck black; a necklace of black spots across the breast; under tail-coverts white; bill with evident bristle at its base. Ad. and Im.-Similar, but with no black on the head or sides of the throat; necklace indicated by dusky spots. L., 5.61; W., 2.53; T., 2-23; B. from N., 31.