'Sm STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE BULLETINS. 



always on the ground" (Jerome Trombley); '•common spring migrant at Albion and 

 seen at Palmer from May to August '' (O. B. Warren); " Dennis Nolan found a nest 

 under a log in Kalamazoo Co." (Dr. M. Gibbs); " neyer found a nest at Plymouth"' 

 (J. B. Purdy); "found one nest in Wayne Co." (Dr. W. C. Brownell); "'not uncom- 

 mon on Keweenaw Point where they breed "' (E. W. Durfee); nests in May, usually 

 on the ground, under logs, very rarely in hollow trees; eggs four or tive, white 

 with yellowish tinge, and specked with brown, most of the brown is in the form 

 of a wreath around the large end; eats insects and insects' eggs; very beneficial. 

 This bird reminds us of the Creepers and Titmice, in its climbing along branches 

 in quest of insects. 



Genus PROTONOTARIA Baibd. 



274-G37-(9o). Protoiiotaria i'itrea (Bodd.). * Prothonotarv Warbler; (ioldkn 

 Swamp Warbler; Willow Warbler. 



Rare at Lansing; "abundant the last few years in Southwestern Michigan*' (Dr. 

 M. Gibbs); " rare along Kalamazoo river in Allegan Co." (S. E. White); " Lenawee 

 Co." (A. H. Boies); "'has not been observed in Monroe Co." (Jerome Trombley): 

 breeds; found breeding in Michigan, latitude 42° north, by K. R. Willhelm; nests 

 in June, in holes in trees, stumps, etc.; "always nests near water, usually over it'' 

 (Dr. M. Gibbs); " at St. Joseph "' (Butler's Birds of Indiana); " not rare in Cass Co., 

 found in swamps and thickets" (Prof. J. W. Simmons). For interesting account of 

 its migration routes, see " Notes on the range of the Prothonotary Warbler in 

 Indiana," by Amos W. Butler, O. and O., March, 1888, pp. .33-34; also "Proceedings 

 Indiana Academy of Science." 1891, p. 165. 



Genus HELMITHERU8 Rafix. 



Worm-eating Warbler, nataral size. 



*275-65it> (}>B). Helmithenis vermivoriis {Oviel.). W^ORiM-EATiNt; Warbler. 



Rare; "Lenawee and Hillsdale Counties" (A. H. Boies); 'Northern Indiana. 

 song very like that of Chipping Sparrow" (A. W. Butler). 



Genus HELMINTHOPHILA Ridg. 



27H-(>41 (98). Hcliiiiiitliophila piiiiis {Linn.). Blue winged Wakblkr; Blue- 

 wiNGED Yellow Warbler. 



Rare; "summer sojourner" (Gibbs' Birds of Michigan); "very rare in Monroe 

 Co. where it is transient, only two ever seen" (Jerome Trombley); "locally dis- 

 tributed " (Dr. M. Gibbs); breeds; nests in May on the ground; eggs four to 



