OF RICHMOND, INDIANA. 523 



River, not many miles below Richmond, sufficiently near onr point of observation for all 

 practical purposes. The list of Dr. Haymond, though very valuable, is evidently quite in- 

 complete. Fifty-eight species only are noted particularly as breeding. Our present list 

 numbers seventy-three, including several not mentioned by Dr. Haymond ; some ten or 

 twelve, however, are included on his authority. Altbough so incomplete, it still affords 

 some data of value on the general character of the locality. Compared with Northern 

 Illinois, Western New York, or New England, it has quite a southern aspect, and undoubt- 

 edly lies not far from the southern boundary of the Alleghanian fauna. Leaving Chicago 

 about the close of May, its more southern character very forcibly struck me, in the more 

 advanced state of the vegetation, and in the occupations of the birds. While at Chicago and 

 vicinity, the cherry, plum, and pear-trees were but just coming into flower, and the greater 

 part of the indigenous trees were still destitute of foliage, the leaves being only conspicuous 

 in such early leafing species as the Populus tremubides, and the migration of the warblers and 

 some other birds was just at its greatest height, I found twenty-four hours later, in south- 

 eastern Indiana, the forests in full leaf, even apple orchards with the fruit already set, and 

 all the birds settled for the summer, and most of them more or less advanced in incubation. 

 The southern character of the locality is more especially indicated by Oathartes aura being 

 resident here, and, according to Dr. Haymond, the former abundance of Conurus carolinensis 



TuRDED^. 



1. Tardus migratorius Linn. Common. Dr. Haymond gives it as resident, but most abun- 

 dant in winter. 



2. Tardus mustelinus Gmel. Common. (Haymond.) 



3. Har porky nchus rufus Cab. Very common. 



4. Galeoscopt.es carolinensis Cab. Very common. 



5. Mimas •polyghttus Boie. " I have seen a few, and heard the notes of a few others, here 

 within the last thirty years." (Haymond.) 



Saxicolid^e. 



6. Sialia sialis Bd. Numerous. According to Haymond is resident the whole year. 



SYLVIIDiE. 



7. Poliopiila ccarulea Sclat. "The most numerous of all the fly-catching tribe." (Hay- 

 mond.) 



Parid^:. 



8. Partis atricapillus Linn. Abundant. 



9. Lophophanes bicolor Bon. Abundant. Said by Dr. Haymond to be about as numerous 

 as the preceding. Saw six or eight together feeding on the carcass of a dead horse. 



Troglodytice. 



10. Troglodytes ecdon Vieill. Abundant. 



11. Thryoihorus ludovicianus Bon. Apparently not rare. 



Sylvicolid^:. 



12. Dendrcsca cestiva Bd. Common, and the only species of the family seen. 



