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i WALTER B, BARROWS, 
PROFESSOR. 
RUFUS H. PETTIT, 
JESSE J. MYERS, 
INSTRUCTORS, 
ZOOLOGY, ENTOMOLOGY, 
PHYSIOLOGY, GEOLOGY. 
MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 
DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY AND GEOLOGY. 
Mr. Willi sail Brewster, 
Cambridge, Mass. 
Dear Sir:- 
ACRICULTURAL COLLEGE, INGHAM CO., MICH. 
June 9, 1904. 
I urn preparing for publication a work on Michigan birds to 
be issued probably next fan as a College bulletin. Naturally I am 
looking up every scrap of information obtainable in regard to the 
birds of our State. Your notes in the Auk regarding specimens of the 
Alder fly-catcher from Oden, Emmet County you doubtless had other 
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birds from that vicinity. I wonder if it would be asking too much of 
you to give me any notes you may have of the capture of any of the less 
common northern species in Michigan/ — /otes^ I me an # of specimens of 
birds or eggs taken in this State. The bulletin will not go to press 
probably before next October or November and I should be very thankful 
for anything you could give me even if it were only a very few reeoras, 
I have not been able to define at all the southern boundary of 
the breeding area of Canada Jay, the Winter Wren, the Junco, the White 
Throated sparrow and the Mourning Warbler. Moreover I have no posi- 
tive record,baeked by a specimen,of the Hudson!an Chickadee in Michi¬ 
gan. I sought for it in vain last July at Marquette, Munising and 
Grand Mar^Ss. Of course I did not make a very thorough search as the 
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time was limited and the evergreen w 
oods were uninhabitable on account 
of insects, but had it been even fairly abundant I ought to have 
found it. 
Tt just occurs to me that T never kept my promise and sent you an 
