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NoTi:s ON Indiana Bikds. By A.mos W. Butlei;. 



Since the publication of my recent paper on Indiana birds* several valu- 

 able notes have been received, relating to the birds of the state. Besides 

 these, a fuller notice of some of the brief notes given in the paper men- 

 tioned may be worthy of note. Not only is much additional information 

 needed as to the occurrence of birds within the state, but also it is of great 

 value to have continued observations on the range, breeding range and 

 habits of birds. From the results of such work, carefully performed, we 

 may map the range of birds by counties and even by townships, and, as a 

 result, be enabled to solve many of the knotty and unravelled problems of 

 geographical distribution. One of the labors which this academy may well 

 carry on, and none can be more valuable, is a biological survey of the state, 

 carefully and sincerely worked out. 



Junco hyemalis shufeldfi (Coale). Shufeldt's Junco. The specimen of thifs 

 bird taken at Lafayette, and reported by Dr. Erastus Test, is the second one 

 taken east of Illinois. A single specimen having been taken in Maryland 

 near Washington. This is a form of the Rocky Mountain region which 

 seems to extend its range southeastward. 



Ammodramus hensloivii (And.) Henslow's Sparrow. Mr. Ruthven Deane 

 informs me that he spent a day in July, 1891, making the acquaintance of 

 Henslow's Sparrows at English Lake, Ind. He reports seeing no less than 

 twenty-five specimens and says: "two of us killed about ten. They have 

 been there all summer." Within five days after receiv ing Mr. Deane's notes 

 my friend, Mr. Charles Dury, of Avondale, Cincinnati, Ohio, informed me 

 of a visit of two friends of his to English Lake in July and August. He said 

 they found Henslow's Sparrows rather common and breeding, and took 

 some specimens, including some young birds. An adult taken there was 

 kindly presented to me by Mr. Ralph Kellogg, one of the collectors. Upon 

 inquiry, I learned that these gentlemen and a friend visited the same 

 locality noted by Mr. Deane, and, further, that they were acquainted and 

 had collected in the same meadows. 



Cistothoms steUarU ( Licht) . Short-billed Marsh Wren. I am under obliga- 

 tions to Mr. Deane, to whom I am indebted for many valuable notes, for 

 some o\)8ervations on the breeding of the Short-billed Marsh Wren in the 

 state. He says an employe at their club house at English lake brought in 

 a nest taken there two or three years ago. In Mr. G. Frean Morcom's col- 



-The Birds of ladiaaa, with illustrations of many of the species, by Amos W. Butler. 

 (Transactions Indiana Horticultural Society, 3890.) 



