306 STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE BULLETINS. 



sayB (report State Horticultural Society, 1881, p. 204) that 66 per cent of food of 

 many examined, coneisted of canker worms; the s<5ng of this bird is delightful. 



Genus PASSERINA Vieili.. 



252-5{).S-(295). Passeriiia cyanea (Linn.). *Indigo Buntino ; Indigo Painted 

 Finch ; Indigo Bird ; Blue Linnet. 



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

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

 Mountain " (E. E. Brewster); nests in May and June, in low bushes, often in 

 gardens; eggs four, white with a bluish tinge. Prof. S. A. Forbes (Bulletin No. 3) 

 found 78 per cent of the food of several which he examined to be canker worms. 



2o3-B0(> (293 part). Passeriiia versicolor (Bonap.). ^Varied Bunting. 



Dr. Atkins reported takir^ this rare bird; said to have been observed in Michi- 

 gan by A. H. Boies. " I think I have seen it " (Dr. Robert Ridgway); taken by 

 Dr. Atkins, May 18. 1874, identified by Ridgway, and now in the collection of Dr. 

 J. M. B. Sill, of Ypsilanti (Dr. Atkins in O. and O.. Vol. IX. 1884, p. 81). 



Genus SPIZA Bonap. 



26+-(>0'l-(2S7). Spiza americana {Gmel). *Dickctssel,; Black-throated Bunting; 

 Little Meadow Lark. 



Very common in some localities in Southern Michigan; rare at the college; "a 

 recent arrival" (Dr. J. B. Steere); May to August; "occasional at Ann Arbor" 

 (Dr. J. B. Steere); "Hillsdale Co."' (A. H. Boies); "common at Port Sanilac" (W. A. 

 Oldfield): breeds; nests usually in bushes, sometimes on the ground; eggs four, 

 immaculate, greenish blue; " very common at Manchester, summer of 1892, and the 

 nests were abundant in clover fields" (L. W. Watkins); food largely insects; some 

 examined by Prof. S. A. Forbes (Michigan Horticultural Report, 1881, p. 204) showed 

 one-half the food to be canker worms; " not known in Michigan twenty years ago. 

 but becoming more common each year, still rarely found north of 44° north latitude " 

 (Dr. M. Gil)b8). 



Family TANAGRIDiE. Tanagers. 



Highly colored, purely insectivorous. 



Genus PIRANGA Vieill. 



2oo-<>0IS-(lo4). Piraii§>-a erythroinelas Vieill. *Scarlet Tanager; Black-winged 

 Redbird. 



Common throughout Southern Michigan at least; May to August, occasionally to 

 October; "rare at Mackinac Island" (S. E. White); "common at Albion and St. 

 Joseph in orchards, bordering or near oak woods, and seen at Palmer in July and 

 September 11, 189.3" (O. B. Warren); "common at Iron Mountain" (E. E. Brewster); 

 "rather common on Keweenaw Point" (E. W. Durfee); breeds; nests in May or 

 June, usually on top of horizontal limb, in orchard or small trees, from twenty 

 to fifty feet from ground on or near ends of swaying branches" (Dr. W. C. 

 Brownell); "often twenty or thirty feet, and rarely as many as forty feet from 



