A Spring Migration Record for 1893-1900 



In the "Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey" 

 was published a record of the arrival of fifty common birds at 

 Germantown, Pa., for the years 1885-1892. This record hav- 

 ing been discontinued, application was made to the Division of 

 Biological Survey, U. S. Department of Agriculture, for access 

 to the records in its possession. Through the kindness of Dr. 

 C. Hart Merriam, Chief of the Division, permission to copy the 

 records was granted. This was done mainly by Mr. J. A. G. 

 Rehn, and these data are now on file and available to any mem- 

 bers of the Club. In order to bring our published record uj) to 

 date, the observations of Mr. Frank L. Burns, covering the fifty 

 birds treated in the Germantown record, as contained in the Agri- 

 cultural Department data, are here published. The location being 

 farther inland and on higher ground, the arrivals are probably 

 a day or two later than they would be at Germantown, but they 

 will serve pretty well to indicate the general character of the 

 migration, and seem to constitute the only continuous record 

 that has been kept for these years at any one point in Eastern 

 Pennsylvania. 



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