. Michigan bird life : a list of all the bird species known to occur in the State together with an outline of their classification and an account of the life history of each species, with special reference to its relation to agriculture ... . wenty-five years is April 2, 1904, the average being the secondweek of April. At Bay City and at (irand Rapids the species arrives atabout the same time, April 7 to April 15, and even at Palmer, Marquettecounty, it was recorded by Mr. 0. B. Warren April 10, 1893 and April29, 1895. Specimens were killed on Spectacle Reef Light, Lake Huron,May 5, 1889 and J
. Michigan bird life : a list of all the bird species known to occur in the State together with an outline of their classification and an account of the life history of each species, with special reference to its relation to agriculture ... . wenty-five years is April 2, 1904, the average being the secondweek of April. At Bay City and at (irand Rapids the species arrives atabout the same time, April 7 to April 15, and even at Palmer, Marquettecounty, it was recorded by Mr. 0. B. Warren April 10, 1893 and April29, 1895. Specimens were killed on Spectacle Reef Light, Lake Huron,May 5, 1889 and June 1, 1892, and a single one October 3, 1893. Onewas killed on Big Sable Light, Lake Superior, May 18, 1891. The south-ward movement in autumn doubtless begins in September, but is mostmarked during Octol)er, and the last do not leave the state until the firstof Novem])er or even later. Althougli an al)undant migrant throughout the entire state it does notnest in the southern counties nor, with rare exceptions, in any countiessouth of the Saginaw-Grand Valley. There are several reports of nestsfound in the southern part of the state, but in most cases these doubtlesswere nests of the Veerv- Dr. Gibbs and Mr. W. A. Gunn secuiod a nest. Plate LXX. Hcriiiit an original drawing hy W. F. Jackson. LAND BIRDS. 721 of three fresh eggs in Ottawa county May 20, 1879, taking the female forpositive identification. There is a nest and three eggs in the AgriculturalCollege collection taken by Gunn and Gibbs, marked Ottawa county,May 31, 1879, possibly the same nest. Dr. Gibbs found the species inMontcalm county, near Howard City, where he took a nest June 10, 1882and was satisfied that they nested in abundance. Dr. R. H. Wolcottfound it common at Charlevoix in dense pine woods where it was un-doubtedly breeding. The writer found it nesting in Emmet county inthe summer of 1904, and it was abundant and in full song on the BeaverIslands, Lake Michigan, in July of the same year. S.
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