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and Alexandria, April 19; Illinois, Peoria, April 17, and Chicago, 

 April 24; Indiana, Waterloo, April 7; Ohio, PainesviUe, April 9, 

 Cleveland, April 13, Oberlin, April 25,. and Sandusky, April 25; 

 Michigan, Battle Creek, April 10, and Grand Rapids, April 17; 

 Ontario, Point Pelee, May 13, and Guelph, May 17; Iowa, Cedar 

 Rapids, April 28; Wisconsin, Berlin, April 1, and Sparta, April 11; 

 Minnesota, Elk River, April 17, Wilder, May 2, and Heron Lake, 

 May 9. In the Great Plains area: Texas, Corpus Christi, April 5, 

 and Gainesville, April 25; Kansas, Elmsdale, April 26; Nebraska, 

 Turlington, May 6; South Dakota, Sioux Falls, May 11. 



In the Rocky Mountain region the spring arrivals are generally 

 later: Colorado, South Park, May 14; Wyoming, Fossil, May 21; 

 and Montana, Great Falls, May 16. The species arrives in southern 

 California late in March and early in April (near Escondido, March 

 28) ; but it is not until after the middle of May that southern Oregon 

 is reached (Klamath Lake, May 21). 



Fall migration. -Late dates of fall departure on the Atlantic sea- 

 board are : Quebec, Montreal, September 2 ; Massachusetts, East Tem- 

 pleton, October 27, and Newburyport, September 12; Rhode Island, 

 near Middletown, September 14, and Providence, September 30; 

 Connecticut, New Haven, September 22; New York, Verona, Septem- 

 ber 1, and Duchess County, September 11; Pennsylvania, Erie, Sep- 

 tember 25; District of Columbia, Washington, September 25; and 

 North Carolina, Raleigh, September 11. In the Mississippi Valley 

 the dates for departure are somewhat later: Ontario, Ottawa, Sep- 

 tember 1 , and Point Pelee, September 2 ; Micliigan, Ann Arbor, Octo- 

 ber 1, and Vicksburg, October 2; Ohio, Sandusky, October 3, and 

 Cedar Point, October 17; Indiana, Waterloo, October 1; Illinois, War- 

 saw, October 10: Wisconsin, Madison, September 23, and North Free- 

 dom, October 10; Iowa, Indianola, October 18; South Dakota, Sioux 

 Falls, October 8; Nebraska, Lincoln, September 20, and Belvidere, 

 October 5; Texas, Corpus Christi, September 29; and California, 

 Dunlap, wSeptember 24. 



Casual records. — Stragglers north of the normal range have been 

 reported from Manitoba (Oak Point, Lake Manitoba, October 20, 

 1907, Shoal Lake, June 1901, and York Factory, 1879). 



The color phase of the least bittern that has been known as Cory's 

 Least Bittern, hohrychus neoxenus, has been found breeding in south- 

 ern Florida (Lake Okeechobee, Lake Flirt, and Fort Thompson) and 

 in Southern Ontario (Toronto). It has been taken or reported in 

 spring from Massachusetts, Scituate, May 18, 1901; Ohio, Toledo, 

 May 25, 1907; Michigan, St. Clair Flats, May 14, 1904; and Wiscon- 

 sin, Lake Koshkonong, May 22, 1893. The only fall record outside 

 of the breeding area is from near Manchester, Michigan, August 8, 

 1894. 



