Life History of the Prothonotary WcuMer. 17 



farther north as a sumiric'r resident. Mr. George C. Cant- 

 twell, in ''A List of the Birds of Minnesota," says of 

 this species: "Common along the ^Mississippi in the south, 

 as at Redwing and La Crescent, breeding at both places."* 

 These points are certainly localities well suited to the 

 bird, as it passes over a great amount of territory in 

 reaching them and yet remains at few, if any, interven- 

 ing points. A record was made at Shiocton, Outagamie 

 county. Wis., May 4, 1832, a male bird being taken there 

 by F. L. Grundtvig.t 



A rara avis is the prothonotary warbler in northern 

 Illinois, the few records we possess being only of strag- 

 glers. Mr. J. E. Dickinson, of Rockford, writes that he 

 has never met the bird in that part of the State. It is 

 not likely that this warbler will be found in this part of 

 Illinois, as the elevation here, especially in the north- 

 western corner, including Jo Daviess and Stephenson 

 counties, is the lii2:hest in the State, rising some two 

 hundred feet above the surrounding country, or about 

 1,250 feet above the sea. 



The prothonotary warbler is given as a rare summer 

 visitant in Lake and Cook counties by Mr. E. W. Nelson, 

 and he mentions taking two specimens in that region in 

 the summer of 1875.$ Mr. W. E. Pratt informs me that 

 he has found no suitable locality in either of these coun- 

 ties for the prothonotary warbler. Mr. B. F. Gault, of 

 Glen Ellyn, DuPage county, gives me but one record, Ma,j 

 13, 1893, as does also Mr. L. W. Nichols, of Somonauk: 

 "June 27, one male bird." Tlie-e two records were the 

 only ones which I procured out of the notes of fifteen 

 correspondents in this portion of the State. § 



•Ornithologist and Ooiogist, Vol. XV. (1890), p. 136. 



tr.ull. Nutt. Ornlth. Club. Vol. VIII. (1883). p. 68. 



TBirds of Northeastern Illinois." Bull. Essex Inst., Vol. VIII.. p. 98. 



^According to a note received June 9, 1892, from Mr. Martin D. 

 Atlvins, of Irving Parl<. a fine male of tiiis species was shot at 

 Fourtli Lake, in Lake county, Illinois, about April 27, 1892. The 

 bird was alone in the willows bordering the lake, and no more were 

 found on thorough search. The specimen is now in the collection 

 of the Jefferson High School in Chicago. — S. A. F. 



