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"Mackinac iBland " (S. E. White); "common at Iron Mountain" (E. E. BrewBter); 

 "sometimes quite common at Keweenaw Point"' (Kneeland); breeds; nests in 

 June in orchard trees, etc.; eggs three to five, cream colored, irregularly spotted 

 with brown; kills bees, both workers and drones; does more good than harm as 

 it kills myriads of noxious insects and usually few bees; Mr. Robt. H. Wolcott 

 writes me that he took a nest with young in at St. Clair Flats as late as July 

 23, 1890; Mr. L. W. Watkins tells me that this bird breeds at Traverse City. 

 Prof. S. A. Forbes found (report of Mich. Hort. Soc, 1881, p. 204) that forty-two 

 per cent of the food of several examined consisted of insects. " The King Bird 

 formerly nested at Bay City, but is one of the victims of the English Sparrow" 

 (N. A. Eddy). 



Genus MYIARCHU8 Cab. 



Great Crested Flycatcher, reduced. 



193-462-(373). Myiarchiis crinitus {Linn.). *Ckested Flycatcher; Great 

 Crested Flycatcher. 



C Common; throughout the state; May to Sept.; "Mackinac Island" (S. E. White); 

 rather retiring in its habits; "quite common at Albion and St. Joseph, but from 

 its sober color and retiring habits often escapes notice" (O. B. Warren); breeds; 

 nests in May and June, in holes in fence rails, usually in hollows of trees, or old 

 Woodpecker holes; nests often contain cast skins of snakes as a portion of the 

 fabric, as often noticed in our state; eggs four to six, yellowish white, scratched 

 with purple. 



Gends SAYORNIS Bonap. 



194-456-(379). Sayoruis pho^be {Lath.). ^Phobbe; Pewee; Bridge Bird; House 

 Pewee; Pewit Flycatcher. 



Very common; probably throughout the entire state; '' nest found under nearly every 

 bridge in Sanilac Co." (W. A. Oldfield); "rare summer resident at Mackinac 

 Island" (S. E. White); "Iron Mountain" (E. E. Brewster); "Keweenaw Point" 



