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&ENU8 MNIOTILTA VlBILL. 



Black and White Creeper, natural size. 



270-636-(91, 92). Mniotilta varia (Linn.). Black and White Warblee; Black 

 and White Cbeepee. 

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

 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 insectB 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 PEOTONOTARIA Baieb. 



271-637-(95). Protonotaria citrea (Bodd.). * Pbothonotary Warbler; 

 Golden Swamp Wakblee; 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 HELMITHERUS Rafin. 



Worm-eating Warbler, natural size. 



