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spring and fall migrant at Bay City" (N. A. Eddy); oVjserved at 

 Sault Ste Marie by A. H. Boies; E. E. Brewster has taken it at Iron Mountain; 

 "saw a flock of about twenty at Mackinac Island, September 22, 1889" (S. E. White); 

 "Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland); "probably breeds" (Gibbs' Birds of Michigan); 

 may possibly breed in Northern Peninsula. 



Genus QUISC.ALUS Vieill. 



217 5111) (837). (^ulscalus ((ui^ciila a-ueiis {Ridgw.). *Bronzed Grackle; 

 Bkonzkd Crow Blackbird; Ckow Blackbird; Common Blackbird. 



March to September; exceeding abundant; throughout the state; "often in cities" 

 (Geo. D. Sones); often in immense flocks especially in spring and fall; " decreasingly 

 common in Monroe Co." (Jerome Trombley); " seen migrating for four days through 

 Mackinac Island in September, 1889" (S. E. White); "common at Iron Mountain" 

 (E. E. Brewster); " in some localities in Marquette Co., as I have seen them in pro- 

 tected bottoms in St. Joseph in January, I think they may remain with us some- 

 times over winter " (O. B. Warren); breeds; nests in May and June in large coarse 

 nests in swamps, in bushes usually near the ground — R. H. Wolcott has found 

 them in evergreens forty feet from the ground; eggs four to six, rarely seven, light 

 blue to light brown, streaked and specked with brown and black; feeds on insects, 

 especially white grubs, and pulls up corn and eats corn from the ear; Prof. Jas. 

 Satterlee once found a nest in a hole in an old dead tamarack, and R. H. Wolcott 

 reports the same from Ann Arbor, where the nest was in an old stub standing in 

 the river. Dr. M. Gibbs writes me that he finds such nesting common in new 

 regions where old tree's are abundant. Mr. N. A. Eddy writes me that these for- 

 merly bred in holes and crevices in trees in the Bay City parks, but are driven 

 forth by the English Sparrow. 



Family FRINGILLIDitl Finches, Sparrows, etc. 



Feed on seeds and insects; our native species all beneficial. Many species are 

 sylvan, while others frequent the cleared fields. 



Genus COCCOTHRAUSTES Bhiss. 



Evening Grosbeak, reduced. 



