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'I In i ipparently the onlj Michigan pecimen oi 

 bet i It bould be pointed out that al Baull 8te. Marie tii< ; 



northern penin ula '"'I from Canada by the width of the 



that northern form may enter our lii 

 thia placi Wood, Museum o) Natural History 



i ma, ity oj Michigan 



Arkansas Kingbird (Tyrannu veriicali In Delaware On Decem- 

 ber 31, 1912, while on a collecting trip with M.. Charles J Penno* 

 Elehoboth, Del fell in with four individu roof 



which wet e ecured. The bird weie ap ;ed in catching some 



kind of mall in eci oeai the ground ovei an old corn field, darting di 

 lii, i, i the top "i the Btiipped tall and returning to the same perch in the 

 u Kingbird mannei Tl rather wild and difficul »ach. 



On examination ili<- stomach was found to contain numerous fragmi 



ime small beetle-like in ect. The specimen ecured were an immature 

 male and female. The occurrence of tl r to the east of its 



oormal range i further attested by the specimen captured by Mr. I II 

 Kennacd on October 20 1912, al Monomoy Island, Chatham, Mat ., ' : just 

 -,i! the heel of Cape Cod" (The Auk, Vol. XXX, Jan. 1913, p. L12). 

 All of these individuals were thus close to our bird* being jut 



back "i the beach, with a strip ol '•: and narrow tangle of green- 



brier intervenii 



[t see) to believe I bal that had bred or 



beenrai ed in the northern portion ol the species' range • here 



in th chewan region, and thai thei wenl adrift in 



gale far to th< I of their regular track al the outset of the fall 



migration, reaching the coast ol ' md and moving to the south- 



. along the hore, lingi houl doubt, on the prairii 



of the Coa tal Plain in Lc d and New Jei i Tbotteb, 



Swarthmon < 'ollegt . P< nna. 



The Wood Pewee as a Foster Parent. I hi >n a pah of 



Kingbirds reared a brood of young in a bun Ling uear my parlor 



window In my yard all summer long a lone Wood Pew© took up its 

 headquai tei This latter bird I coul I !• ol breeding 



:ii leai t there i I within a half mile of the hoi 



we had a severe wind and electrical storm. A fi ter I failed to 



find the parent Kingbirds, though three young, just from oe i boul 



the yard, all the while On July 20, when within 100 fei 



them, 1 saw a lone Wood Pewee feeding these young Kingbirde and 

 : i itor of the ad for a full half hour and the same 



thing v.:i ob erved dailj for aboul ten daj , when the Kingbirde left for 

 other quarters. W. E Snydeb, Beav& hum, Wis. 



Two Flycatchers of the Genus Empidonax New to the Fauna of 

 South Carolina Since my ' Birdi of Soul b ( larolina ' was published in 



