282 STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE BULLETINS. 



Wholly American; chiefly from Central and South America; about live hundred 

 species; food, insects and nectar from tlowers; beautiful and valuable; Dr. M. Gibbs 

 thinks that the food is almost wholly nectar, but 1 have positive proof that they 

 are also insectivorous. 



191-428-(409). Troriillus cohibris Linn. *Rubv-throated Hummingbird. 



Abundant; throughout the state; common at Traverse City and Harbor Springs; 

 "abundant at Albion and St. Joseph, but rare at Palmer, Marquette Co., and rare 

 on Keweenaw Point" (O. B. Warren); "rare on Keweenaw Point, I have seen but 

 one " (E. W. Durfee); E. E. Brewster reports it common at Iron Mountain and S. 

 E. White a rare summer resident at Mackinac Island; I have it reported from 

 Benzie Co., Escanaba and Bois Blanc Island; May to Sept.; breeds; beautiful nests 

 in June on top of a branch and concealed by its beautiful cover of lichens; 

 "Mr. Richard Westnedge, at Kalamazoo has found many rrests, and says that these 

 birds often build in straggling colonies " (Dr. M. Gibbs); eggs two, white; of six 

 dissections, five of the stomachs exhibited many small insects " (S E. White). 

 Mr. J. B. Purdy has taken the nest and in six days another was built on the 

 same apple tree by the same bird and had eggs in it. 



Order PASSERES. Perching Birds. 



Birds with weak feet, usually slight bills, mostly singers. 



Suborder CLAMATORES. Songless Perching Birds. 



Family TYRANNID^. Flycatchers. 

 Pre-eminent insect feeders; excellent friends. 



Genus TYRANNU8 Cnv. 



Kingbird, rednced. 



192 444-(3(>8). Tyrannus tyrannus (Li?in.). "KixciRiRn; Bee Martin ; Tyrant 

 Flycatcher. 



Common; throughout the state; May till Sept.; I have reports of this species 

 from Benzie and Presque Isle Counties, Thunder Bay and Escanaba; "very common 

 at Albion and St. Joseph, and common at Palmer, Marquette Co." (O. B. Warren); 



