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10. New Brunswick — Scotch Lake, April 18. Missouri — St. Louis, 

 March 3. Illinois — Chicago, March 12. Ohio — Oberlin, March 14. 

 Michigan — Petersburg, March 10. Ontario — Strathroy, March 19. 

 Kansas — Onaga, March 13. Iowa — Keokuk, March 12. Minnesota — 

 Lanesboro, March 22. Alberta — Edmonton, April 19. Mackenzie — 

 Fort Simpson, May 14. 



Fall migration. — ^Late dates of fall departure are: Alberta — Belve- 

 dere, September 7. Manitoba — Oak Lake, October 13. Minnesota — 

 Minneapolis, November 3. Illinois — Chicago, November 10. Iowa — 

 central part, October 28. Ontario — Point Pelee, October 18. Ohio — 

 Hillsboro, October 30; Toledo, November 15. Missouri — Concordia, 

 October 30. Quebec — Montreal, October 8. New Brunswick — Scotch 

 Lake, October 8. Massachusetts — Danvers, October 26. Rhode 

 Island — Providence, October 27. Connecticut — Hartford, October 30. 

 New Jersey — New Providence, November 5. 



Casual 7'ecoTds. — There are four for the phoebe in Colorado as fol- 

 lows: A specimen taken at Fort Lyon on April 20, 1884; one col- 

 lected in Pueblo County on April 5, 1896 ; another in the Clear Creek 

 Valley, between Denver and Golden, on September 17, 1911; and the 

 last near Denver, in Adams County, on April 26, 1933. Two speci- 

 mens were collected at Paradise, Ariz., on October 8, 1918, and on 

 August 16, 1919, while a third was taken at Blue Point on October 

 8, 1933. One was obtained a San Fernando, Calif., on February 14, 

 1901, and another at Moss Beach, near Pacific Grove, on March 7, 

 1913. Sight records have been reported from Pullman, Ca,mas, and 

 Yakima, Wash., but there appears to be no specimen collected in that 

 State. 



Egg dates. — Alberta : 5 records, May 15 to June 3. 



Illinois : 28 records, April 1 to June 16 ; 14 records, April 30 to May 

 26, indicating the height of the season. 



Massachusetts : 34 records, April 24 to June 20 ; 18 records, May 8 

 to June 13. 



Texas : 5 records, April 11 to May 12. 



Virginia : 6 records, April 27 to June 10. 



SAYORNIS NIGRICANS NIGRICANS (Swainson) 



BLACK PHOEBE 



Plates 17, 18 



HABITS 

 CONTBIBTrTED BY ROIJEET S. WOODS 



In the more verdant portions of the valleys and coastal plains of 

 the Southwestern States the attractive black-and-white figure of the 

 black phoebe is a familiar sight. No other western flycatcher, except 



