iiS Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



89. CoNTOPUS viRENS (Liim.) — Wood peewee. Common 

 Summer resident, from May to October. The commonest of 

 the small flycatchers. Breeds. 



90. Empidoxax FLAVivENTRis Baird. — Yellow-bellied fly- 

 catcher. Spring and Fall migrant; not uncommon. 



91. Empidonax acadicus (Gmel.) — Acadian flycatcher. 

 Resident from May to September. Breeds. 



92. Empidonax minimus Baird. — Least flycatcher. Spring 

 and Fall migrant, in May and September, arriving and depart- 

 ing with flaviventris. 



Family Alaudid^. — Larks. 



93. Otocoris alpestris (Linn.) — Horned lark. Resident 

 from October to April, although very severe Winters drive 

 the great bulk of them farther vSouth. Usually abundant in 

 November, when they gather in the meadows in large flocks, 

 but in some seasons only a few are seen. 



Family Corvid.K. — Crows and Jays. 



94. CvANOCiTTA cristata (Liuu.) — Blue jay. A common 

 resident. Breeds. 



95. Corvus americanus Aud. — Crow. A common res- 

 ident. Breeds. In speaking of the crow as a resident, it 

 should be stated that the crows to be seen in all parts of the 

 county any Winter day, return every evening to the great 

 crow roost at Clifton, a suburb of Cincinnati. F^very morn- 

 ing, from November to March, they arrive in the vicinity of 

 Lebanon about an hour after sun-rise. The day is spent 

 searching for food along the numerous water-courses of the 

 county, and about three o'clock in the afternoon they may be 

 seen returning, in small flocks, to the Clifton roost. So, 

 while during the daytime, in Winter, crows are more abund- 

 ant than at any other time of the year, by five o'clock in the 

 afternoon tliere is probably not a crow left in the county. 



Family IcTKRin.i;. — Orioles. 



96. DoLiCHONYX orvzivorus, (Linn.) — Bobolink. Uncom- 

 mon migrant, early in May, in small flocks. Breeds at Yellow 

 Springs ( Wheaton), twenty miles north of the Warren County 



line. 



