_Dendroica kirtlandi. Case 8, Fig. 45_
A large Warbler, pale yellow below; crown slaty;
back brownish streaked with black.
_Range._ Nests in Oscoda, Crawford and Roscommon
Counties, Michigan, winters in the Bahamas; in
migration has been found within the area from
Minneapolis, Minn., to Toronto, Ont., south to St.
Louis, Mo., and Fort Myer, Va., and
south-eastward.
Washington, one record, Sept. 25, 1887. N. Ohio,
rare T.V., May 9 and 11. Glen Ellyn, one record,
May 7, 1894. SE. Minn., one record, Minneapolis,
May 13.
Kirtland's Warbler has one of the smallest nesting areas of any North
American bird and consequently is one of our rarest species. In the
summer it lives among the jack-pines of north central Michigan, nesting
on the ground beneath them. When migrating, it may be found usually near
the ground, where it may be identified by its habit of tail-wagging. Its
song is described by Wood in "Warblers of North America" as belonging to
the whistling type with the clear, ringing quality of the Oriole's. The
3-5 eggs, laid early in June, are white speckled with brown in a wreath
at the larger end.