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northward. In winter, West Indies, eastern Mexico, and Central America 
to Panama. 
_ This is one of the Michigan warblers about which we know comparatively 
little, yet it certainly occurs as a migrant over the southern half of the 
state and very possibly nests wherever found. It seems to be nowhere 
abundant, yet its habits are such that unless carefully searched for it 
seldom would be found. During migration it is perhaps less careful to 
keep itself concealed and thus it is captured occasionally, but for its summer 
residence it prefers the thick undergrowth of heavy moist woodlands where 
the shade is so deep and the growth so dense that one unfamiliar with 
the bird’s song might never suspect its presence. In such locations the 
nest is placed, and according to Dr. Gibbs the bird formerly nested in 
considerable numbers in Kalamazoo county and probably still nests there. 
He states that he found at least a dozen nests, but only by the utmost 
patience and the hardest kind of work. 
A nest of three eggs taken in Kalamazoo county in June 1878 was in a 
beech bush in high woods, the nest being only two and one-half feet above 
the ground. Another set of two eggs in the same locality was taken June 
10, 1876 from a nest in a small bush three feet above the ground. Dr. 
Gibbs also found the bird in Kent and Ottawa counties on June 5, 6 and 
10, 1878, and states that it is common there and undoubtedly breeds; 
he also observed it in some numbers in Montcalm and Newaygo counties 
in 1881, 1882 and 1883. In Ingham county this appears to be one of our 
rare warblers and we have met with it but once in the past ten years. 
Mr. Purdy states that he has often seen it in spring at Plymouth, Wayne 
county, but Battle Creek, Manchester and Detroit observers consider it 
a rare species, and according to B. H. Swales it has never been recorded 
from St. Clair county. In Monroe county, Mr. Trombley of Petersburg 
states that it was plentiful forty years ago, but appears to be entirely 
absent now. At Macatawa, Ottawa county, Prof. Frank Smith found a 
Hooded Warbler feeding a Cowbird, August 12, 1905, and a few days later 
and a half mile distant he found another bird of the same species caring 
for two young Cowbirds. Undoubtedly the bird is very local and further 
investigation may show that it has a much wider distribution in the 
state than the foregoing records seem to indicate. 
Nehrling describes the nest of this species in southwestern Missouri 
as follows: ‘It is usually placed in a snowberry bush only one or two 
feet above the ground. It is well hidden among the dense foliage and 
branches of these peculiar bushes and is built of fine bark-strips, skeleton 
leaves, catkins from hickory and oak trees, and fine grasses, all compactly 
woven together with spider webs. The lining consists of grapevine bark; 
occasionally it is lined with horse or cattle hair throughout. These nests 
are not so beautiful as those found in the kalmia and swamp honeysuckle 
thickets of the east.” oe 
Langille describes the song as follows: “The common and familiar 
song of the Hooded Warbler is ‘che-reek, che-reek, che-reek, chi-ci-ee,’ 
the first three notes with a loud bell-like ring, and the rest in very much 
accelerated time, and with a falling inflection. * * * Jn addition 
to its alarm note, a sharp whistling or metallic chip which is very clearly 
characterized, the Hooded Warbler has two distinct songs as different as 
if coming from different species” (Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VII, 1882, 119). 
The eggs are three or four, white or buffy white, speckled or spotted 
