220 Cincinnati Society of JSTatural History. 



The interest taken in onr explorations by the members, and the 

 pecuniary assistance rendered by an appropriation from the funds of 

 the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, has enabled the Madison- 

 ville Society A,o prosecute the work of excavation as rapidly as 

 desirable. It has also resulted in placing in the Museum of the 

 Cincinnati Society a fine collection of the crania from this cemetery, 

 and one of the most complete series of prehistoric remains ever 

 obtained from any one localit}^ 



SU3fMEB BIRDS OF A NORTHERN OHIO MARSH. 

 By Frank W. Langdon. 



The birds mentioned in the following list were, with a few exceptions, 

 elsewhere noted, observed by the writer in company with Mr. J. B. 

 Porter of Glendale, Ohio, on the grounds of* the Wj^nou's Point Shoot- 

 ing Club, near Port Clinton, Ottawa countv, Ohio, during the week 

 ending July 4, 1880. 



This locality, comprising some nine or ten thousand acres of marsh, 

 situated at the head of Sandusk}^ Ba}-, and overgrown with flags* bul- 

 rushes, cane-grass, water-lilies and other characteristic aquatic vege- 

 tation, is doubtless a summer resort for nearly all species of "water" 

 birds which breed in the State, and several species were probably over- 

 looked owing to the limited period of time at our disposal. 



At the time mentioned, however, nearly all the water birds observed 

 were breeding, the eggs taken being mainh", if not entirely, those of 

 the second brood, as we ascertained from a resident who had taken the 

 eggs of the Coot, Florida Gallinule and Black Tern a full month pre- 

 vious ; and as was indicated by the fact that at the time of our visit 

 the first brood of the Swamp Blackbird, Long-billed Marsh Wren, 

 Black Tern and White-bellied Swallow were observed on the wing. 



As liltle or nothing has heretofore been published regarding the 

 breeding habits and localities of water-birds in Ohio, it is hoped that 

 the observations herein recorded may be an acceptable contribution to 

 the subject. 



In order to complete the list of the summer birds of the locality- as 

 far as practicable, a list is also given of the " land " birds observed on 

 the borders of the marsh; several species are included on the authority 

 of Mr. J. B. Porter, he having observed them during this or previous 

 summers. 



