80 



AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OP MICHIGAN. 

 GENUS TROCHILUS LINN. 



Ruby-throated Humming Bird, male and female and nest, slightly reduced. 



188-428-(4O*>). Trochilns colubris Linn. * RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD. 



Abundant; throughout the state; common at Traverse City and Harbor Springs; 

 E. E. Brewster reports it common at Iron Mountain and S. E. White at Mackinac 

 Island; I have it reported from Benzie county, Escanaba and Bois Blanc Island; May 

 to Sept.; breeds; beautiful nests in June on top of a branch and concealed by its beau- 

 tiful cover of lichens; "Mr. Richard Westnedge, at Kalamazoo, has found many nests, 

 and says that these birds often build in straggling colonies" (Dr. M. Gibbs); eggs two, 

 white; " of six dissections, five of the stomachs exhibited many small insects " (S. E. 

 White). Mr. J. B. Purdy has taken the nest and in six days another was built on the 

 same apple tree by the same bird and had eggs in it. 



