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304-685(147). Sylvania pnsilla (Wils.). Wilson's Warbler; Green Black- 

 capped Yellow Warbler. 

 " Tolerably common in Northern Indiana" (Butler's Birds of Indiana); "exceed- 

 ingly abundant migrant at Mackinac Island and in spring in Kent County " (S. E. 

 White); E. E. Brewster writes me that it is common at Iron Mountain; " often common 

 migrant in Monroe County" (Jerome Trombley); "common migrant in ^Michigan" 

 (Dr. M. Gibbs); I have never taken this bird about the college. 



Canadian Flycatching Warbler, natural size. 



305-68(>-(149). Sylvania canadensis (Linn.). * Canadian Warbler; Canadian 

 Flycatching Warbler. 

 Not rare; migrant; April and May and August and September; " rather common in 

 Kalamazoo County " (Dr. M. Gibbs); Lenawee County " (A. H. Boies); common migrant 

 in Monroe County" (Jerome Trombley); "Iron Mountain" (E. E. Brewster); "Keweenaw 

 Point" (Kneeland); "common summer resident at Mackinac Island" (S. E. White); 

 probably breeds in Northern Peninsula; nests in June on the ground; eggs four or 

 five. 



Genus 8ETOPHAGA Swains, 



306-687-(152). Setophaga ruticilla {Linn.). * American Redstart. 



Very common; throughout the entire State; May to August; "Mackinac Island" 

 (S.E.White); "rare at Iron Mountain" (E. E. Brewster); breeds; nests in June in 

 small trees, usually twelve to twenty feet from the ground, rarely forty feet; " nests at 

 Manchester, neatly woven in vertical crotch of shrubs about twelve feet high " (L. W. 

 Watkins); nests usually found in thick woods or dense swamps; "breeds abundantly at 

 Ann Arbor " (Dr. J. B. Steere). Dr. Atkins gives dates of its arrival for 26 years in O. 

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