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The reader will note that though the collector of the above 

 specimen labelled it as the Pine Warbler, yet Mr. Ridgway iden- 

 tified it as a fully plumaged specimen of Kiitland's species. 



Referring to "The Birds of Michigan," by Prof. A. T. Cook, 

 we find that author recording the Kirtland as a rare straggler in 

 that State, mentions the specimen taken at Battle Creek in May, 

 1883, and identified by Mr. Ridgway, and speaks of another taken 

 at Ann Arbor in May, 1888, and refers to another captured at the 

 Straits of Mackinaw and identified by Dr. Merriam. Up to 1878 

 but nine specimens were known, the fifth and ninth of these hav- 

 ing been taken by Mr. Covert at Washtenan, in that State. 



The Prairie Warbler. 



Referring to the taking of a specimen of a male Prairie 

 Warbler, by Mr. Samuel, near Toronto, on the nth of May, 

 1900, Mr. Nash remarks : — " The Prairie Warbler, which has 

 also made its appearance for the first time, is a much better 

 known bird than the Kirtland Warbler, and as its summer range 

 includes most of the States immediately south of our border, its 

 occasional appearance here may be expected." 



Among the birds of New England the Prairk Warbler is re- 

 corded as a rare summer visitant. In Florida it is also listed as a 

 rare bird, but in that State it is met with in the winter season 

 more commonly than in the summer months. In Virginia, it is 

 a more common species, and in all the lists of the birds of the 

 Northern States from New York to the great plains it is recorded 

 as a summer visitant or resident and probably will be found as 

 such in the southern parts of Manitoba. Mr. Goss, in his list of 

 the birds of Kansas, records the Prairie W^arbler as a rare summer 

 resident of that State, but says that it arrives there about the first 

 week in May and begins to nest towards the end of that month. 

 The nest is placed in bushes or on the lower branches of trees, in 

 open or thickly-wooded lands, and at an elevation of from two to 

 eight feet ofif the ground ; the site is in upright forks or among 

 twig-like branches, and the nests are made of leaves, strips of 

 plants, fibres, and lined with hair-like rootlets. The eggs are • 

 four or five to the set, of an oval form, and average in size .67 x 



