MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 117 
may bear as many as twenty-five funnel-shaped flowers, is 
choy, Bua 8 to withstand wind and rain without support, 
and the pollen is so waxy that it does not readily fall off, 
discoloring the interior of the blossom. 
Because of these many superiorities over other lilies which 
can be grown under similar conditions, it would not be sur- 
rising to find within the next generation that Lilium regale 
as become the most widely distributed and best known of 
this popular group of plants. Some authorities believe ‘it 
to be the finest addition to gardens which has been made in 
years, and those interested should not fail to visit the formal 
garden in the enclosure bounded by the main conservatory, 
where about a hundred plants will be found blooming at the 
base of the Juno statue. 
BIRDS IN THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
_ The lists of May 15 and 22 contain eight species of tran- 
Silent visitants which stopped over for a short time on the 
way to their breeding grounds. All these were gone by 
May 30, as were also seven species which breed in our region 
but apparently did not find conditions to their liking. — 
_As subsequent lists made on June 9 and 14 are identical 
with that of May 30, it shows that the thirty species noted 
on these three days are either nesting in parts of the Garden 
itself or so near to it that they use the Garden as regular 
feeding grounds, some of them attracted to it by the abund- 
ance of ppening mulberries. The birds on the following 
lists were observed by Mr. and Mrs. Otto Widmann: 
May 15 May 22 May 30, June 9 and 14 
Green Heron z 
Mourning Dove Mourning Dove Mourning Dove 
Bob-white Bob-white Bob-white 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo = Yellow-billed Cuckoo = Yellow-billed Cuckoo 
Red-headed Red-headed Red-headed 
Woodpecker Woodpecker Woodpecker 
Flicker Flicker Flicker : 
Chimney-swift Chimney-swift Chimney-swift 
Ruby-throated Ruby-throated 
Hummingbird Hummingbird tae 
Kingbird 
Crested Flycatcher Crested Flycatcher Crested Flycatcher 
Wood Pewee Wood Pewee z 
Traill’s Flycatcher Traill’s Flycatcher Traill’s Flycatcher 
Least Flycatcher 
Blue Jay 
Crow Crow ne 
Cowbird Cowbird ; ir 
+ seat, es Blackbird Red-winged Blackbird Red-winged Blackbird 
Meadow-lark Meadow-lark Meadow-lark : 
Orchard Oriole Orchard Oriole Orchard Oriole 
