ceding species, in ]S(3;i, and remained through the winter. Noticed inLake 

 county preceding. (Aiken.) 



Ammodramiis lecnntdl ( Aud) — ^Leconte's Sparrow. I am pleased to be able 

 to note, upon the authority of Mr. Aiken, the occurrence of this bird in 

 northwest Indiana. Aboijt April 15th, 1887, he observed two birds which 

 he thought were this species at Water Valley. About the same time in 

 1889, near the same place, he saw three of what appeared to be the same 

 birds. Two of them were shot and proved to be this species. 



Geothlypin Jonaosa (Wils) — Kentucky Warbler. Mr. Aiken is able to ex- 

 tend the range of this species as far as Gibson Station, Ind., where, he 

 says, several specimens were taken in May, 1887. 



In addition might be added that the extreme dryness of the fall for the past 

 two years has had a noticeable effect in lessening the number of marsh birds 

 and water fowl throughout the part of the state where shooting such game 

 is extensively indulged in. Rail, snipe and duck shooting has been worth- 

 less the past two autumns. Birds were few, for their favorite haunts were 

 unsuited to their wants. Marshes and sloughs were dry, as were the 

 creeks. Much of the lakes had disappeared, leaving instead " mud fiats." 

 Many species, ordinarily common, were rare and others altogether wanting. 

 The open winters two years past and so far this winter, have encouraged 

 many species which ordinarily pass the winter further south to remain with 

 us, and other species which stay in winter in litniterl numbers have re- 

 mained in quantities. 



SOiME XOTKS ON TlIK IJIRDS OV IXDIANA." By R. WeS McBrIDK. 



Loon, Urinator imher, Gunn. Mr. A. W. Butler, in his admirable and ex- 

 cellent catalogue of the birds of Indiana, says of the Loon, or Great North- 

 ern Diver : "I have no knowledge of their breeding within the state, al- 

 though they will probably be found to do so." 1 can personally testify 

 that it is a summer resident of Steuben county, and that it breeds in at 

 least two of the many beautiful lakes of that county. Their eggs have been 

 taken at Lake James and Crooked Lake. I have been familiar with those 

 lakes for more than twenty years, and have never failed to find them there 

 in summer. I have also seen them in the breeding season in Hamilton 

 Lake and ( iolden Lake, also in Steuben county ; in Turkey Lake, on the 



