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I shall refer first to Michigan. It is ooiunion and breeds at Port Sanilac 

 (W. A. Oldfield ). Common and breeds at Bay City (N. A. Eddy). Breeds 

 commonly at Saline (Norman A. Wood). Common summer resident; breeds at 

 Belle Isle ( Louis Fites). Common ; breeds at South Ogden ( Mrs. H. C. Somes). 

 Raisin, Lenawee County; common, breeds (Alfred W. Comfort). Common, 

 breeds, Ganges, Allegan County ( David Lewis). Brant, Saginaw County, com- 

 mon, breeds (W. De Clarenze). Ann Arbor; common, breeds (A. B. Covert, L. T. 

 Meyer, James Savage, F. L. Washburn). St. Clair County; common, breeds 

 (Stephen A. Warniei. Windmill Point; common, breeds (N. J. R. Kennedy). 

 Common; breeds. Battle Creek ( Nathaniel Y. Green). Manchester; common, 

 breeds (L. Whitney Watkins). 



Abundant summer resident at Albion, Calhoun County, and St. Joseph, 

 Berrien County (O. B. Warren). 



Mr. R. C. Alexander, Plymouth, says that they have been there for fifty 

 years and steadily increased in numbers, more common than usual this summer 

 (189-1). Evenly distributed in this locality. Breeds abundantly. 



Prof. A. J. Cook says they were not found in central Michigan until within 

 a few years ( Birds of Mich., p. 101 ). 



I can not tell at how many of these localities it has been coutinuously a 

 breeder as at present. The following localities report a change : At Agricultural 

 College, Ingham County, they were first seen in 1874 (A. J. Cook). At Locke 

 they were rare until 1874 and very common in 1875 ( Dr. H. A. Atkins). First 

 seen in Monroe County in 1872 (Jerome Tronibley). Grand Rapids, Kent 

 County ; never common, but two or three pairs breed near this city (Stewart E. 

 White, I8881. Benzie County: Never seen until late years; rare (Wm. G. 

 Voorheis, 1892). In the Northern Peninsula, Prof. Cook says, upon the au- 

 thority of Mr. E. E. Brewster of Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, that it occurs 

 rarely at that place. In 1895, Mr. O. B. Warren saw them for the first time at 

 Palmer, Marquette County. They remained and bred. 



In Illinois, Mr. Robert Ridgway says it breeds only in the northern part of 

 that State (Birds of 111., Vol. 1, p. 309). 



My own experience is that in the vicinity of Chicago, Illinois, it is the most 

 abundant I have ever seen it. This is especially true in the vicinity of South 

 Englewood and southeast of Grand Crossing towards Indiana. The reports of 

 Messrs. .1. O. Dunn and C. A. Tallman from the last mentioned neighborhood 

 and of ^[r. Eliot Blackwelder from the vicinity of Morgan Park corroborate my 

 experience. Mr. Blackwelder in 18l'4 wrote me that it was increasing yearly and 

 was excessively numerous that year. 

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