NO. 



SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I913 



31 



Fig. 31.- 



-Detail view of "Peanut" shells on dead stump, Key West, 

 Florida. Photograph hv Bartsch. 



BIRD STUDIES IN ILLINOIS 



Mr. Robert Ridgway, curator of the division of birds, U. S. 

 National Museum, has been working on the completion of National 

 Museum Bulletin No. 50, Birds of North and Middle America, and 

 has done some exploration work in the field in connection with this 

 work. 



Recently he made a trip to the Little Wabash River, about 16 miles 

 southwest of Olney, Illinois, in order to ascertain what species of 

 birds were wintering in the dense thickets of the bottom lands, and 

 to obtain evidence as to the presence there of a decided element of 

 the Austroriparian or Lower Austral fauna and flora. 



