320 STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE BULLETINS. 



embraced in Cabot's Birds of Lake Superior; " abundant at Mackinac Island where 

 it breeds" (S. E. White); "builds in Northern Michigan" (Davie's Neets and 

 Eggs of North American Birds); a beautiful species. 



287-(Jo8-(118). Dendroica caeruiea {Wils.). *Cerli.kan Warbler; Blue 

 Warhler. 



Rather common; "Lenawee Co." (A. H. Boies); " DeWitt " (Dr. G. W. Topping); 

 •• next to Yellow Warbler the most common warbler breeding in Monroe Co." 

 (Jerome Trombley); rare migrant at Bay City" (N. A. Eddy); " have only taken one in 

 Kent Co."' (S. E. White); "common spring migrant at St. Joseph, rare at Albion, 

 where it may breed, and seen at Palmer" (O. B. Warren); ''common summer 

 resident in Wayne Co., where I have taken sets of three, four and five eggs" 

 (E. W. Durfee); May and June; very handsome; breeds; " several nests taken in 

 Wayne Co." (Dr. W. C. Brownell); nest taken near Detroit, June 10. by W. A. 

 Davidson (O. and O., Vol. XVII, 1892, p. Ill); nests in May in high trees; this is 

 quite common in tho thickets about the college. 



Chestnut-sided Warbler, natural size. 



2s,sH>.")j> (I '24). Dendroica ponsylvaniea [Linn.). * Chestnut-sided Warbler. 



Very common, some seasons; throughout the entire state; " migrant at Plymouth " 

 (A. B. Purdy); "common spring migrant at Bay City" (N. A. Eddy); "Mackinac 

 Island where it breeds" (S. E. White); "'very common migrant at Albion, and 

 very common summer resident at Palmer. Marquette Co." (O. B. Warren); " very 

 common resident at Iron Mountain" (E. E. Brewster); "more commonly found 

 in swamps" (Prof. J. W. Simmons); several tfiken at college — the first May 10 — by 

 A. B. Cook in May, 180.*3. He finds if the most common Warbler: breeds; "breeds 

 commonly in Wayne Co., and I have seen a few on Keweenaw Point " (E. W. Durfee); 

 "breeds at Port Sanilac'" (W. A. Oldtield); "nests found near Detroit by B. H. 

 Swales" (O. and O., Vol. XVI, 1801. p. US). Dr. M. (iibbs writes me that he once 

 found five nests in one day in Kalamazoo Co.. where it rarely builds now : said 

 to be two brooded in Canada; nests in .Tune, in low bushes; eggs four or five. 

 This species rears many Cow Birds. 



2SJ> <»(}(> (l*2:j). Dendroica castanea (Wils.) * Bay-breasted Warbler. 



Rather common; migrant in Southern Michigan; May and October; "Lenawee 

 Co. and Northern Peninsula " (A. H. Boies); " taken at Ba-y City in both fall 

 and spring migrations" (N. A. Eddy); "not uncommon migrant in Wayne Co.. 

 but rare on Keweenaw Point"" (E. W. Durfeei; "breeds in Northern Pen- 



