122 Wisco'/ism Academy of Sciences^ A)is, and Letters. 



Summer Bed-bird and the Yellow -breasted Chat. Within the 

 last twenty-five years in the narrow bounds of Racine county 

 there have been collected over three hundred species of birds ;. 

 more than have as yet been noticed in any single state — nearly 

 one half of all birds known to naturalists within the entire ter- 

 ritory belonging to the United States. 



But the axe has already leveled much of the " great woods," 

 so that there is now a great falling off on the part of our old 

 familiar feathered friends. It is extremely doubtful if such a 

 collection can ever again be made within the limits of the 

 state. 



