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304-085 (147). Sylvaiiia pusiila {Wils.). Wilson's Waubler; Green Black- 

 capped Yellow Warbler. 



" Tolerably common in Northern Indiana" (Butler's Birds of Indiana); "exceed- 

 ingly abundant migrant at Mackinac Island and in spring in Kent County" (S. E. 

 White); E. E. Brewster writes me that it is common at Iron Mountain; "often common 

 migrant in Monroe County" (Jerome Trombley); "common migrant in Michigan " 

 (Dr. M. Gibbs); I have never taken this bird about the college. 



Canadian Flycatching Warbler, natural size. 



3<)5-(>80-(l-l:y). Sylvauia canadensis (Linn.). * Canadian Warbler; Canadian 

 Flycatching Warbler. 

 Not rare; migrant; April and May and August and September; " rather common in 

 Kalamazoo County " (Dr. M. Gibbs); Lenawee County " (A. H. Boies); common migrant 

 in Monroe County" (Jerome Trombley); "Iron Mountain" (E. E.Brewster); "Keweenaw 

 Point" (Kneeland); "common summer resident at Mackinac Island " (S. E. White); 

 probably breeds in Northern Peninsula; nests in June on the ground; eggs four or 

 five. 



Genus SETOPHAGA Swains, 



306-687(152). 8etophag-a ruticiila (Linn.). * American Redstart. 



Very common; throughout the entire State; May to August; "Mackinac Island" 

 (S. E. White); " rare at Iron Mountain " (E. E. Brewster); breeds; nests in June in 

 small trees, usually twelve to twenty feet from the ground, rarely forty feet; " nests at 

 Manchester, neatly woven in vertical crotch of shrubs about twelve feet high" (L. W. 

 Watkins); nests usually found in thick woods or dense swamps; "breeds abundantly at 

 Ann Arbor " (Dr. J. B. Steere). Dr. Atkins gives dates of its arrival for 26 years in O. 

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