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This year I went March ist, with a friend after the horned owls. Scared 

 one out of an old sycamore tree ; but it contained no eggs. Scared another 

 off of an old nest in a beech tree, it also was empty. 



On March 4th, in company with Mr. Corwin, visited nest near Vicksburg. 

 Nest close to stream, situated in crotch of large white oak, sixty feet up. The 

 two eggs were incubated about two weeks. The nest was very old. The 

 female left before we landed the boat about fifty feet away. I had a hard 

 climb after the eggs as the tree was covered with old bark very thick and 

 brittle. After the female left nest a lot of crows pursued her around the 

 woods, chasing her back to her nest as I was putting eggs in a cigar box pre- 

 paring to come back to terra-firma. 



From this it will be seen that so far as my observations go this bird 

 invariably choses open nests in trees, lays from one to three eggs, usually 

 two. Is partial to swamp and bottom land and loves to be near to water. 



Battle Creek, Mich., March 7, 1903. 



REMARKS ON THE RECENT CAPTURE OF A KIRTLAND'S 



WARBLER IN MICHIGAN. 



ADOLPHE B. COVERT. 



On the 15th day of June, 1903, Mr. Earl Frothingham, an assistant in 

 the Museum of the University of Michigan, added another specimen of the 

 rare warbler D. Kirtlandi to the growing list of that bird in tfae middle west, 

 making the 23rd specimen recorded and the 7th for the State of Michigan. 

 This last specimen, a male, was taken in the Western part of Oscoda County 

 near the boundary line of Crawford County. This section of country is a 

 part of the Canadian Life Zone of Lower Michigan. Mr. Frothingham tells 

 me that he saw and could have easily taken three more specimens, that they 

 were in full song and every indication pointed that they were nesting close 

 by. In speaking of its song, habits, etc., Mr. Frothingham gives me the fol- 

 lowing verbal account : 



The immediate section of the country where we observed these birds 

 was covered with tall scattering Jack Pines interspersed with - Poplars and 

 low underbrush consisting of Blackberries, wild Raspberries, briars, oaks, 

 fallen trees, decaying logs, and tall sentinel like dead pines, blackened and 

 seared by forest fires. In many places could be found a luxuriant growth 

 of sweet ferns, wintergreens, and a rank growth of grass, in others, the 

 grass was stunted and scattering. Small Norway Pines growing in clumps, 

 dead trees, still standing stripped of their bark and limbs and whitened by 

 the elements, many small swamp like spots covered with spagnumn-mass, 

 and a low gflowth of cedar trees. Level tracts of country consisting of a 

 light sandy soil, struggling weeds, and a weak growth of grass, the whole 

 sparcely covered with stunted Norway Pines. This last being the charac- 

 teristic "Norway Plains" of the pine region of Michigan. 



In this varied tangled growth Mr. Frothingham found D. Kirtlandi in 

 company with the following birds : Black-throated Green Warbler, Red 

 Start, Juncos feeding young, Hermit Thrushes in full song, Black-throated 

 Blue Warblers, Nashville Warblers, Solitary Vireos, Black and White Creep- 



