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patches and busby lowlands, and may be readily known by its loud peculiar note. 

 Arrives April 23-30 and remains until about the middle of September ( Sept. 13). 

 Its note has been translated by the boys of lUinoiB, aays Mr. Ridgway, as 

 "chick'ly-bearer, limber, stick, with special emphasis on the first syllable of each 

 word." In Bermuda the natives express its notes as saying " ginger beer, quick ! " 



Family MNIOTILTID.E. Wood-Waeblers. 



Genus MNIOTILTA Vieillot. 

 '241. Mniotilta varia (imri.^ Black and White Warbler; Black and White Creeper. 



Head of Black anil White Creeper, nat. size. 



Common summer resident. Breeds. Most numerous in spring. The earliest 

 of the Warblers to arrive. Has been taken at Brookville April 3d, but usually 

 appears April 7th to 15th. In many of their habits they much resemble tlie 

 Creepers, being often found climbing about the trunk and over the larger limbs of 

 trees rather than moving among the "mailer branches. 



Gknis PROTONOTAEIA Baikd. 



"242. Protonotaria citrea ( Bodd.). Pbothonotaey Warbler; Golden Swasip Warbler. 

 Summer resident locally and in some localities common. It is found as a 

 summer resident throughout the valley of the Wabash river proper, extending to 

 .St. Mary's Reservoir in Ohio, and across the Kankakee valley to Lake Michigan, 

 where it is rare. In the lower Wabash valley, about the swamps and cypress ponds, 

 north into Starke County, and in some parts of the K.ankakee valley, notably 

 English Lake, it is common and breeds abundantly. Mr. H. K. Coale has taken 

 it on the shore of Lake Michigan in Lake County. Mr. J. W. Byrkit reports 

 having taken one specimen near Michigan City. Mrs. Jane L. Hine has seen it in 

 Dekalb County, and Hon. R. Wes. McBride has taken it in Elkhart County. 

 Prof. Evermann has taken it in Carroll County. ("The Auk," Vol. VI, pp.26, 

 27 ). In the remainder of the State, east and south of the valley of the Wabash 

 River and in the extreme nortbeast portion of the .State I can learn of no record 

 of its occurrence. Mr. H. W. McBride made a canoe trip the first half of May, 

 (1891), through parts of Steuben, Lagrange and Elkhart counties, Indiana, and 

 St. Joseph County, Michigan. He infcrms me that he found one specimen of the 

 Prothonolary Warbler in Steuben County, but in Lagrange County, between Lima 

 and Van Buren, they were breeding very commonly. "In a distance of about 

 one-half mile, by the creek, I found eight nests without leaving my boat. The 

 nests were all in old Woodpeckers' holes in stubs over the water." He mentions 

 one male taken which "has a patch of orange red surrounding the base of the 

 bill." Mr. McBride further notes that he took two specimens and saw many more 

 about five miles north of the Indiana line in Michigan. 



