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"common migrant in summer, and to be seen in the deep wooded ravines on 

 Keweenaw Point at any time in the summer season" (E. W. Durfee); "Kewee- 

 naw Point" (Kneeland); -'common summer resident at Mackinac Island" (S. E. 

 White); probably breeds in Northern Peninsula; nests in June on the ground; 

 eggs four or five. 



Genus SETOPHAGA Swains. 



3lO-G87-(lo2). Setopha^a i'iiticilla-(I.i«n.). * American Redstart. 



Very common; throughout the entire state; May to August; "occurs in amazing 



abundance at Mackinac Island" (S. E. White); "rare at Iron Mountain"' (E. E. 

 Brewster); " breeds commonly on Keweenaw Point " (E. W. Durfee); •' all my 

 records are for spring migrations when it is abundant at Bay City " (N. A. Eddy); 

 " common summer resident at Albion and St. Joseph, and seen at Palmer where it is 

 a common migrant, a few remaining to breed" (O. B. Warren); breeds; nests in 

 June in small trees, usually twelve to twenty feet from the ground, rarely forty 

 feet; " nests at Manchester, neatly woven in vertical crotch of shrubs about 

 twelve feet high" (L. W. Watkins); nests usually found in thick woods or dense 

 swamps; "breeds abundantly at Ann Arbor" (Dr. J. B. Steere). Dr. Atkins gives 

 dates of its arrival for twenty-six years in O. and O., Vol. VIII. p. 31. 



Family MOTACILLID^. Wagtails and Pipits. 

 Small birds; insectivorous; often in flocks. 



Genus ANTHUS Bechst. 



Titlark, natural size. 



311-697-(89). Anthus pensilvauicus (Lath.). * American Pipit;' American Tit- 

 lark; Wagtail; Brown Lark; Pipit. 



Common; throughout the state; in flocks; April and May and September to 

 November, occasional in December and January; migrant; taken at college by 

 A. B. Cook in May, 1893; "common at Bay City during fall migrations" (N. 



A. Eddy); "common at Iron Mountain in autumn and probably in spring" 

 (E. E. Brewster); "Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland); "rare migrant at Albion" (O. 



B. Warren); "winter sojourner" (A. H. Boies). Taken here by L. W. Watkins, 

 May 10, 1893. 



