358 MICHIGAN SURVEY, 1908. 



flowers on Menagerie Island. They were said to be seen .here nearly 

 every day and probably bred near. 



A single male was seen on several occasions during August and 

 September in the clearing at Washington Harbor. The cultiiVated 

 nasturtiums and some wild flowers furnished it food. More of this 

 species wowld prabably live on the isla.nd if it were lumbered, thus 

 making more extensive clearings where wild flowers could grow. 



44. Ti/iannus ti/raniiiis (444). Kingbird. 



Kange: North America north to New Brunswick and Manitoba; rare 

 west of the Rocky ^Mountains; winters in Central and South America. 



Station : Washington Harbor, T, '04. 



A single individual came to the clearing on the afternoon of Septem- 

 ber 4. 



45. Sai/oniis phoehe (456). Phoebe. 



Range: Eastern North America, west to eastern Colorado and 

 western Texas, and from the British Provinces south to eastern Mexico 

 and Cuba, wintering from the south Atlantic and Gulf States south- 

 ward. Breeds from South Carolina northward. 



Station : Washington Harbor, I, '04. 



Migration : August to September 12. 



The Phoebe was quite common throughout August and the first part 

 of September leaving on the trwentieth of the latter month. It was 

 probably migrating, as I believe none nested at this end of the island. 

 The edges of the clearings and along the road were the favorite places, 

 and especially those parts where there were small burnings, the leafless 

 bushes making ideal perches from which they would sally forth in 

 true flycatcher fashion. Both young and adults were seen, sometimes 

 in little groups of three or four. 



46. Nuttallornis horcnlift (459). Olive-sided Flycatcher. 



Range: North America, breeding from the northern and the higher 

 mountainous parts of the United States northward to British Coliimbia 

 and the Saskatchewan River. Accidental on the Lower Yukon and in 

 Greenland. In winter, south to Central America, Columbia and Peru. 



Stations: Rock Harbor, alder zone, I, 1. Tamarack and spruce 

 swamps, II, 2, 5, IV, 7. Siskowit Bay, old burning, V, 9, V, 11. 

 Washington Harbor, X, '04. 



Resident: July 17 to September 3. 



A rather common summer resident at Rock Harbor and Siskowit 

 Bay and probably at Washington Harbor, although only one was seen 

 there this year. In 1904, however, they were fairly common. On July 

 20, at the head of Tobin Harbor, one of these birds was seen, wh,»;ch 

 probably had a nest close by, as it flitted from tree to tree, scolding 

 and showing other signs of distress, which usually indicates a nest 

 or young in the vicinity. 



A pair was taken July 17 in a tamarack swam]) (II, 2). They were 

 quite common in open tamarack, spruce and cedar swamps, Uisually 

 perching on top of the highest dead trees, and uttering at short in- 

 tervals a loud, harsh cry. After a short flight for an insect, they gen- 

 erally returned to the same perch. At Siskowit one was taken August 

 11 in a tamarack-spruce swamp (V, 11) where they were fairly abund- 

 ant. In nearly every swamp visited two or three pairs of these birds 



