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Plymouth '" (J. B. Purdy); " rare in Monroe Co." (Jerome Trombley); " rare in 

 Kalamazoo Co." (Dr. M. Gibbs); "very rare at Mackinac leiand " (S. E. White); 

 embraced in Cabot's Birds of Lake Superior; •' Iron Mountain, May 1888 " (E. 

 E. Brewster); "not rare on Keweenaw Point" (E. W. Durfee); "breeds north on 

 edge of pinery " (Dr. M. Gibbs). Dr. Gibbs writes me that it is abundant 

 in second growth clearings in the pine regions north of 44 degrees north lati- 

 tude; nest and eggs as in next species; taken here by A. B. Cook, May 17, 

 1893. 



Maryland Yellow-throat, male, natural size. 



805-681(141 part). Geothlypis trichas {Linn.}. * Maryland Yellow throat; 

 Yellow-throated Ground Warbler. 



Very common; throughout the state; May to August; "abundant at Ann 

 Arbor " (Dr. J. B. Steere); " common but not abundant at Bay City " 

 (N. A. Eddy); "common at DeWitt" (Dr. G. W. Topping); reported from 

 Hillsdale and Lenawee Counties, and at Sault Ste. Marie July 16, 1892, 

 by A. H. Boies, who thinks it breeds in the Northern Peninsula; "not a com- 

 mon migrant at Mackinac Island" (S. E. White); "common summer resident at 

 Albion, and also at Palmer where it surely breeds " (O. B. Warren); " common 

 at Iron Mountain" (E. E. Brewster); breeds; " two broods " (Dr. W. C. Brownell); 

 nests from May to July, on the ground or in low thickets; nests often arched 

 over;" eggs four to six, clear white specked with reddish, dots, though quite 

 variable in size, form and markings; one of our finest singers and justly a 

 favorite. 



Genus ICTERIA Vieill. 



Yellow-breasted Cbat. 



t:{0<j-(>S3-(144). Ictei-ia vireiis {Linn.). * Yellow-breasted Chai. 



Exceedingly rare; "occasionally quite common" (Dr. H. A. Atkins); 'not 

 observed at Ann Arbor" (Dr. J. B. Steere); "once in Lenawee Co." (A. H. 

 Boies); "formerly nested in Monroe Co.. not seen since 1881" (Jerome Trom- 

 bley); May to October; breeds; nests in May and June in bushes; eggs four; 



