. A catalogue of the birds of Indiana. Birds. 84 patches and busby lowlands, and may be readily known by its loud peculiar note. Arrives April 23-30 and remains until about the middle of September ( Sept. 13). Its note has been translated by the boys of lUinoiB, aays Mr. Ridgway, as "chick'ly-bearer, limber, stick, with special emphasis on the first syllable of each ; In Bermuda the natives express its notes as saying " ginger beer, quick ! " Family Wood-Waeblers. Genus MNIOTILTA Vieillot. '241. Mniotilta varia (imri.^ Black and White Warbler; Black and W
. A catalogue of the birds of Indiana. Birds. 84 patches and busby lowlands, and may be readily known by its loud peculiar note. Arrives April 23-30 and remains until about the middle of September ( Sept. 13). Its note has been translated by the boys of lUinoiB, aays Mr. Ridgway, as "chick'ly-bearer, limber, stick, with special emphasis on the first syllable of each ; In Bermuda the natives express its notes as saying " ginger beer, quick ! " Family Wood-Waeblers. Genus MNIOTILTA Vieillot. '241. Mniotilta varia (imri.^ Black and White Warbler; Black and White Head of Black anil White Creeper, nat. size. Common summer resident. Breeds. Most numerous in spring. The earliest of the Warblers to arrive. Has been taken at Brookville April 3d, but usually appears April 7th to 15th. In many of their habits they much resemble tlie Creepers, being often found climbing about the trunk and over the larger limbs of trees rather than moving among the "mailer branches. Gknis PROTONOTAEIA Baikd. "242. Protonotaria citrea ( Bodd.). Pbothonotaey Warbler; Golden Swasip Warbler. Summer resident locally and in some localities common. It is found as a summer resident throughout the valley of the Wabash river proper, extending to .St. Mary's Reservoir in Ohio, and across the Kankakee valley to Lake Michigan, where it is rare. In the lower Wabash valley, about the swamps and cypress ponds, north into Starke County, and in some parts of the valley, notably English Lake, it is common and breeds abundantly. Mr. H. K. Coale has taken it on the shore of Lake Michigan in Lake County. Mr. J. W. Byrkit reports having taken one specimen near Michigan City. Mrs. Jane L. Hine has seen it in Dekalb County, and Hon. R. Wes. McBride has taken it in Elkhart County. Prof. Evermann has taken it in Carroll County. ("The Auk," Vol. VI, , 27 ). In the remainder of the State, east and south of the valley of the Wabash River and
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