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F[rRTiiER Notes on Indiana Birds. 



By Amos W. Butler. 



The followinc notes on the birds observed hi Indiana and adjacent 

 states are worthy of record. 

 Prairie Warbler. Dendroica disc(jh)r (Vieill.) 



^Ir. I'hilip I>aker shot a si)ecinien of this \varl)ler near IIehnsl)nr.ff. 

 Brown County, .7nly 7, 1910, and another near the same phice July 1"), 

 I'.iKt. Biith (if thes»^ were sent to nic for veiitication. lie learned t'le'r 

 soni,'. July 112. 1!»l(i. he heard aiiDther in a different locality. In 1911 he 

 heard one on May 7 and another June 14. In 1912 he saw two on 'Slay 27, 

 and June 25 heard live near Nashville. All of the above were in Brown 

 County. Mr. Baker says they frequent the sassafras thickets of aban- 

 dcued, hillsides. He adds, "I ha\e no di;rbt t'le birds c uld be toun 1 

 nestiui,' In this and sinular bualities in Brown County." Some of the 

 above dates, it will be observed, come witliin the breedinii season. 



Mr. Percival I'rooks Cotiin reports a male of tliis bird from Millers, 

 Lake County, Ind.. .Afay Id, 19(1!!. One was noted by Miss Hazel Heath 

 at .\e\v Taris, Obin. Ajiril 11, 1909. I'l'of. Norman A. Wood, Ann Arbor, 

 Mich., notes one at that place ^Nlay 11, 1909; next seen May 12. Itare. 

 Does not l)reed. 



Miss Caroline M. Carpenter, of Bichmond. Ind., in a list of birds 

 identified at Lake Maxinkuckee bet\^ een ^lay s and Kl, 1911, reports this 

 bird. 

 Yeilon'-hcaded liJaelhird. Xanthocephalus xauthocephalus (Bonap.). 



Mr. Percival Broolcs Coffin of Chicago reports a Yellow-lieaded Black- 

 bird at Millers, Lake County, Indiana., May IG, 1909. Mr. Clarence Guy 

 Littell reports seein.u' one at Winona Lake, Kosciusko C(Hinty. the summer 

 of 1902. Ind. Lniv, Bull. Vol. 1. No. 4, 1903, p. 57.) 

 White Pelican. Pelecanus erytlirorliynchos Gmel. 



Professor Glenn Culbertson, Hanover College, reports that a White 

 Pelican was killed on the Ohio River near Hanover, Jefferson County, 

 May (!, 1909. Miss Hazel Heath informs me of tlie occurrence of two of 

 these birds at New Paris, Ohio, August 22 and 23, 1912. 



