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over and others at large end, where usually wreathed with chestnut 

 and burnt umber; .64 by .47. 



The Prairie Warbler is a rare migrant and summer resident. It 

 has not yet been ascertained to breed within the State. Mr. Robert 

 Ridgway has noted it in Knox and Gibson counties, but is uncertain 

 that it breeds. He found it in the former county, April 15, 1881, and 

 met with it frequently afterward that same spring. The late Mr. C. 

 H. Bollman took a specimen near Bloomington, April 26, 1885. Mr. 

 W. 0. Wallace took it at Wabash, May 2, 1892. Mr. J. E. Beasley 

 took two near Lebanon, April 29, 1892, and more recently received a 

 female killed June 14, 1896, at English Lake. The latter, and one of 

 the former, are in the State Museum at Indianapolis. It is reported 

 rare throughout Illinois; but one record is given of its occurrence in 

 Wisconsin; and in Ohio it is a rare migrant in the southern and cen- 

 tral part, and a summer resident in the northern part of that State. 

 Dr. F. W. Langdon notes it as rare near Cincinnati in May, and 

 Messrs. Dury and Freeman obtained a specimen there May 5, 1879 

 (Gin. Soc. K H., I., 1879, p. 172; Ibid, July, 1879). Dr. A. W.- Bray- 

 ton informs me of its occurrence at London, Ky., in June, 1878, and 

 the late Mr. C. W. Bickham reported it from Nelson County. 



In Michigan it is found as a rare migrant and summer resident 

 north to Mackinac Island. Its nest and -eggs were taken in Ottawa 

 County, May 26, 1879 (Bulletin N. 0. C., Vol. IV., p. 186). It is 

 very particular as to its summer home, selecting places suited to its 

 taste, and sometimes breeding in numbers in a very small area, They 

 frequent old clearings, bushy fields and pasture land, and sometimes 

 orchards. There their shyness makes them very inconspicuous objects, 

 save to the person whose ear catches their peculiar song, beginning 

 low and gradually growing louder, resembling the syllables, wee-wee- 

 chee-chee-chee-chee. I have no fall records, nor has it ever been found 

 in the Whitewater Valley. 



159. GENUS SEIURUS SWAINSON. 



a 1 . Crown orange brown with a black stripe on each side; no superciliary stripe. 



S. aurocapillus (Linn.). 280 

 a 2 . Crown color of back; a long superciliary stripe. 



6 1 . Below whitish, lightly streaked ; bill over one-half inch long. 



S. xnotacilla (Vieill.). 283 

 b 2 . Below yellowish, heavily streaked ; bill not over one-half inch long. 



c 1 . Line over eye buffy ; size smaller. S. noveboracensis (Gmel.). 281 

 c 2 . Line over eye lighter; size larger. 



S. noveboracensis notabilis (Grinnell). 282 



