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at the Illinois, and the rest traveling north at least to 

 41°. In the summer of 1875, Mr. E. W. Nelson found 

 it a common bird at Anna, Union county, 111., but at 

 Cairo, just south of Anna, he did not find it so, as he 

 says: "Very uncommon, probably owing to the late high 

 water. Only a few were observed about the borders of 

 lagoons in dense bushes."* 



Mr. Philo Smith, Jr., writes that he has found this 

 warbler in abundance in certain localities along the Okaw 

 River, and also in St. Clair and Calhoun counties alons: 

 the Mississijipi. From a most interesting letter from 

 Mr. Louis Fuchs, of Belleville, 111., I extract the follow- 

 ing: "In 1849, I commenced collecting here for a French 

 firm. My particular attention was to the golden swamp 

 warbler drawn on account of his peculiar and sedate 

 habits, and no inclination to observe danger ahead. I 

 found him and nests only in the neighborhood of streams. 

 (This was Kaskaskia River, at that time very abund- 

 ant; more so near Green River, Kentucky.)" In his own 

 locality (Belleville) he considers the wai'bler a very rare 

 summer resident, having procured only two specimens 

 within five years. Mr. Fuchs, with his forty-four years' 

 experience with this bird, might reveal some interesting 

 facts concerning it, and the writer regrets that the 

 manuscripts are so brief. The bird is undoubtedly 

 abundant along the Kaskaskia for some distance north. 

 In a recent communication, Mr. E. F. Steinhaur, of 

 Vandalia, informs me that the prothonotary is an 

 abundant summer resident along the Kaskaskia in his 

 locality, and that there is a great deal of rich bottom- 

 land and quite a number of small lakes in the vicinity. 



The bird is given as an abundant summer sojourner 

 in Madison county, by Mr. J. Hurter,f and is reported 

 by W. L. Jones as an abundant summer resident around 

 St. Louis. In a valuable communication from Mr. O. 

 Widmann, of Old Orchard, Mo., is the following: 



*Bull. Essex Inst., Vo!. IX. p. 52; 

 tOrnithologist and Oolosrist, Vol. TX.. p. 8»>. 



