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BIBDS OF ILUNOIS. 



The date of Howering of additional species, in 1876, was noted by 

 Dr. Scbueck, as follows : 



Species. 



Date of 

 leallDK. 



Date of 

 flowviiDK. 



fianunculus abortivnf 



Capselta bursa-ijastoris 



Pear (/'i/nix cotiimunis) 



Apple l/'u''"" "i<i'"»i 



White Oak (Viif reus a(i)a) 



Currant (RiTies rubnim) 



Bloclcberry (fittbus villosus) 



Elder (SamfiHCUs cauadeusisi 



Blood-root (SartQiiiuaria canadtitisis). 



Lilac (Surinoa vulgaris) 



Dandelion {Taraxacum dens-leonis) .. 

 White Elm (CVmu.i americana) 



March 1 



" 1.... 



April 1.... 



March 30 ... 



April -H ... 



March ffi.... 

 " »0.... 



April 2.... 



March lu.... 



April l3.... 



April 20-21* 

 April 2«t .. 



April 13. 



April 13: .. 



May lOi .. 



June 15 



April 2.... 



April 30.... 



April 13... 

 March 25.... 



For purpose of comparison, I give below the earliest and latest 

 recorded dates of arrival for a number of species at Mt. Carinel, 

 Illinois ; Wheatland, Indiana ; St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, 

 D. C, — localities in nearly the same latitude. For the latter, I am 

 indebted to Mr. H. W. Ilenshaw and Mr. Wm. Palmer, of Wash- 

 ington, who have kindly given me their records ; the data for St. 

 Louis, I have compiled from Mr. Otto Widman's "General Notes 

 and Weather Report from St. Louis," published in Bulletin No. 1 

 of the Ridgway Ornithological Club, of Chicago,' which abound 

 with valuable data pertaining to the subject of bird-migration in 

 the Mississippi Valley. 



• Fruit rlpo July 30. tFiult rlpo July in. t Fnilt ripe June 10. ! Fruit ripe July l. 



'Cook. W. W., and Wldman, Otto.-BIrd Miirratlon I In the I Mississippi Valley. I 



I By I W. W. Cook and Otto Wldmann. I I Uoad before the I lildeway Ornitholoelcal 



Club, I Novembers. ISSt. I I Published In the "American Field" I Vol. X.\, No. 22. to 



Vol. XXI, No. 3. I Published In pamphlet form with the followlni; title on cover: The I 



Ridgway OmltholoBlonl Club. | ot I Chlcaeo. Illinois, U. 8. A, I | Bulletin No. 1. 1 



Bird Miitratlon in the Mississippi Valley j By I W. W. Cooke and Otto Wldmann I I 



Published by | Tho American Fulld. I December, 1883. 8 vo., pp, 37, the contents as fol- 

 lows: "Parti, Introduction. I I (W. W. Cooke.)" Pp.3, 4. "Part II. | I Gen- 

 eral Notes and Weather Report from St. Louis, I Mo„ beRinnlne with January 1, 1883. I 



I 0. Wldmann." I Pp. 5-13. "Part III. I j General Notes on Birds and Weather 



at JelTorson, I Wisconsin, in the SprinK of 1883. | I W. W. Cooke." Pp, U-18. "Part 



IV. I I Notes on each species of Bird observed at St. Louis, | Missouri, and Jeffer- 

 son, Wisconsin, during the I Sprlni; Mieraion of ISS'J. | | Pp. 19-37. 



