. Birds of Michigan . * Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Abundant; throughout the state; common at Traverse City and Harbor Springs;E. E. Brewster reports it common at Iron Mountain and S. E. White at MackinacIsland; I have it reported from Benzie county, Escanaba and Bois Blanc Island; Mayto Sept.; breeds; beautiful nests in June on top of a branch and concealed by its beau-tiful cover of lichens; Mr. Richard Westnedge, at Kalamazoo, has found many nests,and says that these birds often build in straggling colonies (Dr. M. Gibbs); eggs two,white; of six dissections, five of the stomachs exhibited ma
. Birds of Michigan . * Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Abundant; throughout the state; common at Traverse City and Harbor Springs;E. E. Brewster reports it common at Iron Mountain and S. E. White at MackinacIsland; I have it reported from Benzie county, Escanaba and Bois Blanc Island; Mayto Sept.; breeds; beautiful nests in June on top of a branch and concealed by its beau-tiful cover of lichens; Mr. Richard Westnedge, at Kalamazoo, has found many nests,and says that these birds often build in straggling colonies (Dr. M. Gibbs); eggs two,white; of six dissections, five of the stomachs exhibited many small insects (S. ). Mr. J. B. Purdy has taken the nest and in six days another was built on thesame apple tree by the same bird and had eggs in it. ZOOLOGICAL, DEPARTMENT. 81 Order PASSERES. Perching Birds. Birds with, weak feet, usually slight bills, mostly singers. Suborder CLAMATORES. Songless Perching TYRANNID^:. insect feeders; excellent friends. Genus TYRANNUS Kingbird, reduced. 189 4/14. (^68). Tyrannus tyrannus (Linn.). *Kingbikd; Bee Martin; TyrantFlycatcher. Common; throughout the state; May till Sept.; I have reports of this species fromBenzie County, Presque Isle, Thunder Bay and Escanaba; Mackinac Island (S. ); common at Iron Mountain (); Keweenaw Point (Knee-land); breeds; nests in June in orchard trees, etc.; eggs three to five, cream colored,irregularly spotted with brown; kills bees, both workers and drones; does more goodthan harm as it kills myriads of noxious insects and usually few bees; Mr. L. W. Wat-kins tells me that this bird breeds at Traverse City. Prof. S. A. Forbes found (reportof Mich. Hort. Soc, 1881, p. 204) that forty-two per cent of the food of several examinedconsisted of 82 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OF MICHIGAN. Genus MYIARCHUS Cab.
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