° 1911 J Wood, Warblers in Wayne County, Mich., in 1909. 19 



information we found reason for believing that there was a some- 

 what close relation between the beginning of the cormorants' 

 nesting in the region and the dying of large numbers of trees after 

 the opening of the Chicago Drainage Canal. There is very little 

 probability that they remained in the vicinity during the summers 

 of 1894-98, as the writer and various other persons who were 

 familiar with birds and who worked at the Illinois Biological 

 Station during those seasons did not see them except during migra- 

 tion, while during the past two summers they were frequently 

 seen near the Station throughout July and August. The Station 

 was not located at Havana during the interval between the years 

 1900 and 1909. 



The fishermen of the region know these birds as Nigger Loons 

 and detest them because of their destructiveness to fish. They 

 were rather reticent but there seemed good reason for inferring 

 that the Clear Lake colony had been "shot out" and it seems 

 hardly probable that the establishment of large breeding colonies 

 would be permitted. 



THE WARBLERS IN WAYNE COUNTY, MICHIGAN, IN 



1909. 



BY J. CLAIRE WOOD. 



Business confined the writer mainly to River Rouge Village 

 during the spring of 1909. In the adjacent village of Ford an 

 orchard extended from the Detroit River westerly into Ecorse 

 Township and terminated near a small piece of timber; all being 

 on what is known as Private Claims 112 and 113. Here, spare 

 afternoons were devoted to warbler observations. May 16 and 

 23 were spent five miles inland on P. C. 32, Ecorse Township. 

 This woods is about one mile long and one end lies in the bottom 



