110 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OP MICHIGAN. 



GENUS MNIOTILTA VIEILL. 



Black and White Creeper, natural size. 



27O-636-(91, 92). Mniotilta varia (Linn.). BLACK AND WHITE WARBLER; BLACK 



AND WHITE CREEPER. 



Throughout the lower Peninsula at least; common; rare in some localities; a pair 

 taken at college by A. B. Cook, May 10, 1893; "Mackinac Island" (S. E. White); breeds; 

 " not observed nesting at Ann Arbor " (Dr. J. B. Steere); " not common but breeds in 

 Monroe County and always on the ground " (Jerome Trombley); "Dennis Nolan found 

 a nest under a log in Kalamazoo County" (Dr. M. Gibbs); "never found a nest at 

 Plymouth" (J. B. Purdy); "found one nest in Wayne County" (Dr. W. C. Brownell); 

 nests in May, usually on the ground, under logs, very rarely in hollow trees; eggs four 

 or five, white with yellowish tinge, and specked with brown, most of the brown is in 

 the form of a wreath around the large end; eats insects and insects' eggs; very bene- 

 ficial. This bird reminds us of the Creepers and Titmice, in its climbing along 

 branches in quest of insects. 



GENUS PROTONOTARIA BAIRD. 



271-637-(95). Protonotaria citrea (Bodd.). * PROTHONOTARY WARBLER; 



GOLDEN SWAMP WARBLER; WILLOW WARBLER. 



Rare at Lansing; "abundant the last few years in Southwestern Michigan" 

 (Dr. M. Gibbs); "rare along Kalamazoo river in Allegan County" (S. E. White); 

 "Lenawee County" (A. H. Boies); "has not been observed in Monroe County" 

 (Jerome Trombley); breeds; found breeding in Michigan, latitude 42 north, by K. R. 

 Willhelm; nests in June, in holes in trees, stumps etc.; "always nests near water, 

 usually over it" (Dr. M. Gibbs); "at St. Joseph" (Butler's Birds of Indiana); "not 

 rare in Cass County, found in swamps and thickets" (Prof. J. W. Simmons). For 

 interesting account of its migration routes, see " Notes on the range of the Prothona- 

 tory Warbler in Indiana," by Amos W. Butler, O. and O., March, 1888, pp. 33-34; also 

 " Proceedings Indiana Academy of Science, 1891. p. 165. 



GENUS HELM1THERU8 RAFIN. 



Worm-eating Warbler, natural size. 



