\()lc.s on llic liirds. :\'27 



I li.-ivc 11(1 (k'liiiitc records fur (".•irioll Couiil.w Inil I rcc.ill luivin;; seen 

 it at the AniistroiiL: Pond iiciir ("aiiidcii. oii tlic Wabasli. near I'illslmi-u. in 

 till' Harness Swaiui) south of I'.urliiiiitoii. and once on tlie old canal near 

 l.ockjiort. 



In Monroe County, a very distrossiufjr accident liaitpeiied to one of my 

 yomifi friends, Antone r.oisen. of Bloouiiiifiton. If my note is correct, it 

 was on May ;">. ISStJ. wli(>n youuK lioisen eripided a liiltern and wlieii at- 

 temptiufr to catch it. tlie bird strucl< at liim with its liill. hiltiiiir him in the 

 eye and comi>h>tely destroyinir liis vision in that eye. 



4-J. l\()ia{V( III s KXii.is ( <;nieliii 1. i.iAsi un ri;n.\. ( 1!>] i 



A rather common summer resident in faNoraiile sitiiations such as the vari- 

 ous ponds and marslies of N'ij^o County. paiii<-iilaiiy tlie Five-mih' I'oud 

 and the (Joosi- Pond, in each of whicli I liave found it nestiiij;. Two females 

 obtained, :May I'l. ISSS. at the ixnid Just nortli of Terre Haute, and another, 

 also a female, tlie next d.-iy al the same iioiid. Two days eiirlier. .May If). 

 Prof. W. S. lilatchiey ohtained a iiair. male and female, and I saw live at 

 the sam(> jxnid ; and on May i!."!. one of my students, Mr. Thomas Frazee, 

 secured a male at the same place. A male in fine iilnuiage taken at the 

 Goose Pond. May 17. 1800. On May ol. I again visited the Goose Pond and 

 found the Least Pdttern nesting in considerable numbers. It was just the 

 height of the nesting season. Twelve nests were found, three containing tive 

 e.iigs each, tive with four eggs each, two with three each, and two with one 

 each. Incubation had begun in three sets, the others were all fresh. 



A week later (June 6), I visited this pond again, accompanied by U. O. 

 Cox, and obtained two more sets, one of five, the other of four, with incuba- 

 tion well begun in each set. 



The Goose Pond ctmtains (or did then I. several hundred acres. The 

 water was less than three feet deep, in most places not over one or two 

 feet. In the middle or deeper part of the pond was a fine growth of ix)nd 

 \\V\es (Xi/mphira adr n'l aid Cast lii i tuberoaa), both sp^'ies abundant and 

 blooming in profusion. Around the edges in the shallower parts were rank 

 growths of cattails iTyplui lafifolia), rushes (Eqiiisctum limorum). vari- 

 ous sedges (Carex), Arrowhead (Sagittaria). and doubtless other forms. 

 And the water was well filled with duckweed (Lemna. Spirodela, "NVolffia, 

 etc.), and several species of Potemogeton, Raniniculus, pickerel-weed, Cru- 

 cifers. Scirpus, etc. The Least Bitterns' nests were usually from a few 

 inches to a foot above the water, and placed upon a few broken-down stems 

 or leaves of cattails, but sometimes the.v were supported by leaves of Sagit- 

 taria. 



We did not see a singl(> bird on its nest, so sly were they in slipping away 

 before we discovered them. In one ca.se we saw the bird fly up from flags 

 only a few inches from the nest, and in several cases the birds flew iip and 

 thus showed us where to expect to find their nests. 



4.".. AkKKA TTKKODIAS 1 1 KKODI AS T.ilina'US. GKKAT 15I.IK HKROX. (104) 



A not very common summer resident. A few individuals aiTive early in 

 the sin-ing .iiid remain in and about suitable locations throughout the sum- 



