388 Procrr(Ji)i(/s of ludhiim Acafleiin/ of Sicicnce. 



(Utrroll Count!/: June 12. 1882. nest with three fresh eggs in a small elm 

 in the Maple swiinij). Arrived from tlie south on May 3 in 1883, and by the 

 19th, both sexes were common. On June 13, I found a nest with three parti- 

 ally incubated eggs, 15 feet from the ground, in a beech tree in Stockton's 

 woods near Burlington. On May 21, a nest with five fresh eggs was found 

 about eight feet from ground in a small elm tree in the Maple swamp near 

 Lexington. Noted May G, 1884. and May 4 and 0, 1885. 



T(f/o Count ji: May 3 and 5. 1888: May 12. a male collected on Honey 

 Creek. 



Monroe Vountij: Usually ii connnon summer resident. l)ut not many seen 

 in 1885 or 1880. 



212. Anthis lu MKscKxs (Tunstall). pipit. (G97) 



Spring ;iiid fall niigr;iiit : not very connnon: goes iiortii early in tlie 

 spring and mi\\ be seen along the sticnnis even b<>fore all tbc snow has gone. 



One of my earliest and most pleasant recollections of this interesting 

 little bird is of a walk one afternoon, March 19, 1879. along the banks of 

 Deer Creek above Camden, Snow still covered the ground everywhere 

 except in a few small areas here and there and along the immediate shores 

 of the creek. Just east of the railroad was a narrow strip of naked ground 

 on the north bank of the stream and there I came suddenly upon a flock of 

 about 20 Pipits feeding near the water's edge. They were not easily fright- 

 ened and permitted me to approach within a few yards of them, thus giving 

 a good opiMjrtunity to observe them closely. They were feeding busily and 

 seemed to fipd their food chiefly close to the water. After they had appar- 

 ently exhausted the supply at that i)lace they flew, singly or In twos or 

 threes, to a similar place farther down the creek. 



In Vigo County I have recorded the Pipit on April 12. 13. and 15 to 25, 

 1888. It doubtless occurs in ]Monroe County, but I have no record. 



213. MiMUS POIACil.OTTOS POLYOLOTTOS (LiuUieUS). MOtKINGBIKD. (703) 



A very rare summer resident. We have seen it in Vigo County only three 

 times : twice south of Terre Haute near Honey Creek, and once just south 

 of the blast furnace about an o.sage orange hedge. 



In Monroe County, we have seen it but once, on April 29. 1882, a fine 

 male in full song in the cemetery just west of P.loomington. Charles H. 

 Bollinan had seen it previously near Bloomington. A month later — May 29— 

 while on a geological and natural history tramp to Wyandotte Cave, we saw 

 one in Orange County aixiut 35 miles south of Bloomington. It has never 

 been observed in Carroll County. 



214. DCMKTKLI.A CAKOMNKXSIS ( IjUlueUS I . C.KTUIKD. (704) 



Perhaps our most familiar and best known summer resident among our 

 songbirds; common aliout the gardens, orchards, fields and open woods 

 w^herever there are thickets or briar patches. Arrives from the south 

 April 20 to May first. Nests with full .sets of eggs by May 15 or 20. 



CarroU Counti/: .Inly 14. 1SS2. nest with tbi-ee fresh eggs. May 3, 1883. 

 first noticed this morning, rather connnon : May 21. nests with two and four 

 eggs near the Maple swamp : several others .seen. After this date the species 



