Second Series. 



Vol. I. No. i. 



First Quarter, 1905 



A MAGAZINE OF NORTH AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY 

 Published Quarterly at Floral Park, N. Y. I Price, $1.00 Per Year. 30 



John Lewis Child s, Editor 



Plate I. Eggs of Kirtland's Warbler 



THE TAKING OF THE TYPE SET, NEST AND FOUR EGGS OF Dcildr, 



kirtlandi in oscoda co., northern Michigan, june 15TH, 



1904, BY EDWARD ARNOLD OF BATTLE CREEK. 



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EARLY in June, 1903, Mr. E. H. Frothingham, an assistant in the Muse- 

 um of the Michigan State University at Ann Arbor, with a friend, Mr. 

 T. G. Gale, discovered a strange bird in Oscoda Co., Mich., near the Au Sable 

 River, on " 4 mile plains " north of the. Au Sable. 



Mr. Norman A. Wood, of Ann Arbor, who identified the skin as Dcn- 

 droica kirtlandi, surmised that the bird was probably breeding near the lo- 

 cality and on June 29th, same year, started for Oscoda County to endeavor to 

 land the coveted prize of a nest and eggs and to solve the great mystery of 

 where this bird breeds. After a week's hard work Mr. Wood discovered a nest 

 with young birds and an addled egg. For a full description of this very in- 

 teresting article I will refer the reader to Vol. 5, No. 1, March, 1904, 

 " Bulletin of the Michigan Ornithological Club." 



I talked the matter of the breeding of this bird over very carefully with 

 Mr. Wood and decided to make a trip to Oscoda County early in June, 1904, 

 to aid in the possibility of finding a nest with eggs. I decided to take an 

 assistant along to help in the search. We made the trip and arrived at our 

 destination in good shape early in June. 



On June 14th, 1904, 1 found a male in full song on the elevated Jack Pine 

 Plains about one mile from the Au Sable River in Oscoda Co. The valley 

 of the Au Sable at this place is about two miles wide, and the edge of the 

 Jack Pine ridge is about one mile and a half from the river. 



On June 15th, after a very diligent search, I located a singing male D. 



