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AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OP MICHIGAN. 

 Genus TROCHILU8 Linn. 



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



188-428-(409). Trocliilns colnbris 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. 



