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Title: The warblers of North America
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927
Subjects: Wood warblers Birds
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & Company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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) Pileolated Warbler, Nidologist,II, 1894, 28. Canadian Warbler WILSONIA CANADENSIS (Linn.) PlauXXII Distinguishing Characters.—The Canadian Warbler may always be knownby its gray upperparts, absence of white on wings or tail, and necklace of spotsacross the breast. In the adult c? these are black and conspicuous, in the ?and young of both sexes they are dusky and less sharply defined, but I have notseen a specimen in which they were wholly wanting. Length (skin), 500; wing,2.50; tail, 2.20; bill, .40. Adult <?, Spring.—Upperparts gray, crown spotted with black, the foreheadusually wholly black; line from bill to eye and eye-ring yellow; wings and tailexternally the color of the back and without white markings; lores and malarstripe black, running into a band of black spots across the breast; rest of under-pays yellow, crissum white. Adult t$, Fall.—Similar to adult <? in Spring but a faint wash of greenishon back; black breast-spots narrowly tipped with yellow. Plate XXII
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1. Wilsons Warbler, Male. 3 r,,,.ntlw ,„ n mt , -,,, °- CANADIAN WAKELER, ADULT Matp 2. w,Ls0H s wAEE,EK, FEMALE. 4. Cahadian Warbler; a™- *£^ 5. Canadian Warbler, Young Female,(one-half natural size.) CANADIAN WARBLER 281 Young d, Fall.—Similar to adult <$ in Fall but crown greenish withoutblack, lores dusky, no black malar stripe, yellow duller, breast spots dusky andnot sharply denned. Not certainly distinguishable from adult S in Fall. Adult ?, Spring.—Similar to adult <? in Spring but duller throughout, crowngray tinged with yellowish, especially on forehead, and without black, loresdusky, no black malar stripe; breast spots dusky and not sharply defined.Adult ?, Fall.—Similar to adult 9 in Spring but slightly greener above.Young 2, Fall.—Not certainly distinguishable from adult ? in Fall butaveraging browner above especially on crown, and with the breast spots fainter.Nestling.—Resembles nestling of Wilsonia pusilla. General Distribution.—Eastern North Am

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