. 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 ... . f the United States, andalthough described in 1852, from a specimen collected by Chas. Pease nearCleveland, Ohio, May 18, 1851, its summer home remained a mysteryuntil 1903, when it was shown to be a not uncommon bird on the jack-jjineplains of northern Michigan, where nests, eggs and young were taken byMr. Norman A. Wood of Ann Arbor, Michigan. The bird
. 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 ... . f the United States, andalthough described in 1852, from a specimen collected by Chas. Pease nearCleveland, Ohio, May 18, 1851, its summer home remained a mysteryuntil 1903, when it was shown to be a not uncommon bird on the jack-jjineplains of northern Michigan, where nests, eggs and young were taken byMr. Norman A. Wood of Ann Arbor, Michigan. The bird was namedKirtlands Warbler in honor of J. P. Kirtland of Cleveland, in acknow-ledgment of his great services in the promotion of knowledge of the naturalhistory of the Mississippi Valley. Although the specimen above alludedto is the type specimen, a bird of the same kind had been taken at sea,near the Bahama Islands, by S. Cabot, Jr., probably in 1840. From thistime until 1898 single specimens were taken at rare intervals in the easternIgnited States to the number of nineteen or twenty in all, while it wasdiscovered that the bird wintered in the Bahama Islands, where a totalof about fifty specimens (j)robably just 55) have been Pliite LXITKirtlands Warbler. From Tones Key to North American Birds, 5th Edition, liio;}.Dana Estes & Company. LAND BIRDS. G21 The specimens taken in the United States were collected in widely separatelocalities, but by far the larger number in Ohio and Michigan. The follow-ing is the list of specimens taken in Michigan, as given by Mr. Norman in March 1904:* Two females, collected at Ann Arbor by A. , May 15, 1875 and May 16, 1879; 1 male, collected by N. Y. Greenat Battle Creek, Michigan, May 11, 1883; 1 male, found dead at foot ofSpectacle Reef Lighthouse, Lake Huron, by the keeper, William Marshall,May 21, 1885; 1 male, collected by L. Knapp, at Ann Arbor May 18, 1888;1 specimen, collected by F. H. Chapin, Kalamazoo county, Mi
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