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unless, like Cory's Bittern, the few that come northward should 

 select this province for their future home." 



This member of the Warbler family received the nam.e of 

 Kirtland from Dr. J. P. Kirtland, of Ohio, who appears to have 

 been the first to introduce the species to the notice of American 

 ornithologists, and add its name to the list of the warblers of 

 North America, of which it is among the rarest. 



The male of this species is about five and a half inches in 

 length, and the plumage on the upper parts is of a slaty blue 

 colour, the front of the head being black and the crown streaked 

 with lines of the same hue, the under parts yellow, whitening 

 toward the extremities, and the wings and tail are each marked 

 with spots and lines of a clear white. The female is a little 

 smaller in size than the male and the marking of her plumage is 

 much similar, but the colours are of a duller hue. The bill and 

 feet are black. 



Of the nesting and general habits of this species but little is 

 known, but in its migratory movements and food-seeking actions it 

 does not appear to differ from the other members of its genus. 



Dr. Coues, in his " Key to North American Birds," gives a 

 full description of the size and plumage of both sexes of this 

 species, and after noting its habitations " Eastern United States," 

 says that it is the rarest of all the warblers, and that up to 1884 

 only about a dozen specimens had been collected. 



In the general notes of the first volume of " The Auk," page 

 389, under the heading "Another Kirtland's Warbler from 

 Michigan," Mr. Robert Ridgway, of the Smithsonian Institute, 

 Washington, contributes the following note regarding this 

 species: — "The national museum has recently acquired a fully 

 adult male of this species which, on the collector's label, bears the 

 following legend : ' No. III. collection of N.Y. Green {Dcndroica 

 pinus) Pine CreepingWarbler; Battle Creek, Mich., May nth, 1883.' 

 This specimen, which was generously presented to the National 

 Museum by Mr. J. H. Batty, of Parkville, LT., is in the highest 

 state of plumage of the fully adult male, and has the yellow of the 

 under parts entirely free from markings on the jugulum Which are 

 • present in the type (an immature male changing to spring plu- 

 mage) and in two of the three females in the collection. 



