ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



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has found one nest in Kalamazoo County; " said to be often common about Detroit" 

 (Butler's Birds of Indiana). 



Black-throated Green Warbler, natural size. 



290 (>07-(ll-). Deiidroica virens (G?ueZ.). * Black-throated Green W.\rbler. 

 April and May, and August and September; usually a migrant south; nests north 

 of Montcalm County; "breeds sparingly in Kent County but abundantly at Mackinac 

 Island '' (S. E. White); " Keweenaw Point " (Kneeland); '• taken in spring at Iron Moun- 

 tain" (E. E. Brewster); "nests abundantly in Northern Peninsula" (Prof. Ludwig 

 Kumlein); ■• breeds in Northern Michigan" (Davie's Nests and Eggs of North Ameri- 

 can Birds). This bird has been taken in Montcalm County by Dr. J. B. Steere, and in 

 Ionia County by Mr. Levi Broas. 



2i)l-670-(131). Dendroica kirUamU Baird. Kirtland's Warbler 



"Rare straggler" (Dr M. Gibbs); "one from Battle Creek May 11, 1883. identified 

 by Robt. Ridgway; taken by Mr. Knapp at Ann Arbor May, 1888 (The Auk, Vol. VI, p. 

 279); one from Straits of Mackinaw, identified by Dr. C. Hart Merriam (The Auk. Vol. 

 1, pp. 376 and 389); in 1879 nine specimens known, the fifth and ninth taken by A. B. 

 Covert in Washtenaw County (H. A. Burdie in Bull. Nuttall Ornithological Club, Vol. 

 IV, p. 185); reported by Dr. C. Hart Merriam from Straits of Mackinaw. May -21. 1885 

 (The Auk. Vol. I p. 376). 



1192 (i71-(l.*M). Dendroica vigorsii (And.). * Pine Warbler; Pine-creeping 

 Warbler. 

 April and May and September and October; J. E. Nichols of Lansing has taken 

 these often in October; not observed in Monroe County" (Jerome Trombley); "very 

 common at Iron Mountain, and probably a summer resident " (E. E. Brewster); breeds 

 north; "nests at Traverse City" (L. Whitney Watkins); "found all summer in Kent 

 County, probably breeds" (S. E. White); "song resembles that of sparrow and is not 

 warbler like" (Dr. M. Gibbs). 



