Chapman as "You must come to the woods,
or you won't see me."
KENTUCKY WARBLER (Geothlypis formosa) Wood Warbler family
Length -- 5.5 inches. Nearly an inch shorter than the English
sparrow.
Male -- Upper parts olive-green; under parts yellow; a yellow
line from the bill passes over and around the eye. Crown of
head, patch below the eye, and line defining throat, black.
Female -- Similar, but paler, and with grayish instead of black
markings.
Range -- United States eastward from the Rockies, and from Iowa
and Connecticut to Central, America, where it winters.
Migrations -- May. September. Summer resident.
No bird is common at the extreme limits of its range, and so this warbler has
a reputation for rarity among the New England ornithologists that would
surprise people in the middle South and Southwest. After all that may be said
in the books, a bird is either common or rare to the individual who may or may
not have happened to become acquainted with it in any part of its chosen
territory. Plenty of people in Kentucky, where we might judge from its name
this bird is supposed to be most numerous, have never seen or heard of it,
while a student on the Hudson River, within sight of New York, knows it
intimately. It also nests regularly in certain parts of the Connecticut
Valley.
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