no The Wilson Bulletin — No. 53. 



(3) < October 29, 1901. A male taken at Pt. Mouelle. Wayne 

 Co. (Blain. Auk. L902, 210). 



(4) Sept. 18, 1!K)4. A male taken near South Lyons, Oak- 

 land Co. (Blain. Bull. Mich. Ornith. Club, 1904, 91). 



35. M doner pes carolinus. — Red-bellied Woodpecker. 



Jas. B. Purdy, the veteran ornithologist of Plymouth, writes 

 me that when the timber was abundant at Plymouth this spe- 

 cies was quite common during the entire fall, winter, and 

 spring. But as the country has been deforested the bird is 

 now very rare. On April 2ft, 1889, he discovered a pair nesting 

 in a beech near Plymouth, the nest containing five eggs, which 

 are in his collection. According to Jeromfc Trombley, a few 

 formerly wintered in Monroe county, which is the next county 

 south of Wayne. (Butler, Birds of Ind., 843). My exper- 

 ience with this specieis is that I have never either personally 

 seen or examined a bird during the summer, or winter; and 

 of late years, even during the migrations the bird has become 

 very rare and constant search has failed to reveal but one or 

 two individuals each season. 



46. Empidonax Haviventris. — Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. 



P. A. Taverner observed one bird May 7, 1904, in Gros.se 

 Pt. Tp., but owing to his recent arrival in Michigan, was un- 

 willing to stand for the record until further data was secured. 

 On May 23, 1905, he secured a male in Greenfield Tp., which 

 1 believe is the first bird of the species actually taken here. 

 The present fall (August 27) in Farmington Tp., Oakland 

 Co., we met with a female. Undoubtedly a not uncommon mi- 

 grant, as we found it common on the Point Pelee, Ont., dur- 

 ing September. 



63. Carpodaais purpurens. — Purple Finch. 



Unusually abundant during October, 1904, lx>th in Wayne 

 and Southern Genesee Counties. I met with it in numbers 

 in each piece of woodland visited on October 23, near Atlas. 



64. Loxia curvirostra minor. — American Crossbill. 



To my former meager notes on this species I can add the 

 following data: On November 22, 1903, Walter C. Wood met 

 with a small flock on Grosse Isle, Wayne Co. I carefully 

 searched the island for these birds on December 13th, 1903, 

 but was unsuccessful. On November 1ft. 1903, Jas. B. Purdy 



