284 STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE BULLETINS. 



(Kneeland); " very common at St. Joseph and Albion. It uses same nest year 

 after year, adding a little to it each season. It is one of the earliest birds to 

 arrive from the south in the spring. It is common at Palmer, nesting in caves 

 and pit workings" (O. B. Warren); breeds very abundantly; nests in May, under 

 bridges or porches, in out houses, etc.; eggs four to seven, pure white occasionally 

 with brown spots at large end; one of our best known and most familiar birds, 

 its plaintive note is known to all. 



Genus CONTOPUSICab. 



195-459-(30S). Coiitopus borealis (Swain.). Olive-sided Flycatcher. 



Rather rare; throughout the Southern Peninsula; April to Aug.; "rare in Kala- 

 mazoo Co." (Dr. M. Gibbs); taken by Dr. M. Gibbs in Ottawa Co., May 21, 1879 

 (Bull. Nuttall Ornithological Club, Vol. IX, p. 186); "very common in many 

 northern Counties" (C. J. Davis); "one specimen shot at Mackinac Island, August 

 15, 1890" (S. E. White); E. W. Durfee reports this from Kent Co. and rare on 

 Keweenaw Point; nests in June, in trees; eggs three to five, as in next species 

 •except larger. 



196-t61-(382). Coutopus vireiis (Linn.). *Wood Pewee. 



Common; general in the state; May to October; usually in groves, but not rare 

 about our houses; "rare summer resident, but common migrant Mackinac Island" 

 {S. E. White); " rather rare at Palmer, Marquette Co., but very common at Albion 

 and St. Joseph, in orchards. I once took four eggs from a nest, when the bird 

 built another nest from the material of the old one and laid three eggs in it; I 

 took these, when the bird built a third nest using the material of the second, 

 and in this laid three eggs; I took these eggs, when the bird gave up and 

 quitted the locality. Each such successive nest was more slight and less well 

 built" (O. B. Warren); "Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland); E. E. Brewster reports it 

 common at Iron Mountain; embraced in Cabot's Birds of Lake Superior; breeds; 

 "breeds abundantly at Traverse City" (L. W. Watkins); nests in June though 

 occasionally as late as July, or even August, (Robt. H. Wolcott took a nest with 

 an egg in it at St. Clair Flats, July 2.3, 189.3) in orchards, usually on horizontal 

 limbs, the nests often beautifully covered with lichens, very rare about houses, 

 one reported on ledge under the cornice of a house etc.; eggs three, creamy white, 

 with spots of brown at the large end; very beneficial. The novice is likely to 

 confuse this bird with the Phcebe; its note is very sweet and beautiful. 



Genus EMPIDONAX Cab. 



197-463-(38.S). Empidonax llaviyeutris Baird. * Yellow-bellied Flvcatchek. 



GNot rare; "not rare during spring migration, one taken in Kalsmazoo Co." (Dr. 

 M. Gibbs); several taken at the college. May, 1893, by A. B. Cook; E. W. Durfee 

 has taken this and E. acadicus in Wayne Co., where the latter breeds; " taken in 

 fall at Heisterman's Island" (N. A. Eddy); "Iron Mountain" (E. E. Brewster); 

 Mr. S. E. White reports this species as a rare migrant at Mackinac Island at the 

 time of fall migration; said to breed in the northern part of the state; eggs 

 usually four. 



