AMERICAN REDSTART 



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Fall Migration. — {continued) 



PLACE 



Mississippi Valley — 



Columbia Falls, Mont. . . . 



Great Falls, Mont 



Aweme, Man 



Lanesboro, Minn 



Grinnell, la 



Keokuk, la 



Ottawa, Ont 



Palmer, Mich 



Mackinaw Island, Mich. . 



Livonia, Mich 



Detroit, Mich 



Wauseon, O 



Sedan, Ind 



Chicago, 111 



Eubank, Ky 



Ariel, Miss 



Rodney, Miss 



New Orleans and vicinity 



No. of 

 years' 

 record 



3 

 12 



7 

 4 



Average date of 

 last one seen 



September 15 

 September 12 

 September 20 



September 17 



September 21 

 September 28 

 September 19 

 September 15 

 September 28 

 September 19 



October 18 



Latest date of 

 last one seen 



September 

 September 

 September 

 September 

 September 

 October 20, 

 September 

 September 

 September 

 September 

 October 5, 

 September 

 October 11, 

 October 5, 

 October 7, 

 October 18, 

 October 15 

 October 27 



6, 1895 

 14, 1889 

 23, 1904 

 22, 1887 



28, 1885 

 , 1900 



29, 1890 

 10, 1893 

 14, 1889 

 28, 1891 

 . 1905 



30, 1895 

 , 1889 

 , 1902 

 , 1891 

 , 1897 

 , 1888 



1899 



The Bird and its Haunts. — With the Redstart we reach the acme 

 of Warbler activity. If a bird exists which is more constantly in 

 motion and in a greater variety of ways, I have yet to see it. But it 

 is at feeding that the bird excels ; not the somewhat sedate, pendulum- 

 like wing-feeding of the true Flycatcher who, sitting quietly in wait, 

 swings out from his perch, makes his capture and returns to his 

 starting point, but a mad series of darts and dives and whirls, ot 

 onward rushes and as sudden stops, which yield not one insect but 

 many and, at the same time, display the bird's brilliant plumage in a 

 manner to set at defiance all laws of aggressive coloration. With what 

 dainty grace he spreads his tail, half opens his wings, and pirouettes 



