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sionally placed on the perpendicular walls of wash-outs in clay 

 soil. 



Contopus virens. Wood Pewee. — Abundant summer resident. 

 May 9 to September 25. Earliest nest, June 15, 1889. 



Empidonax flaviventris. — Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. Rare. Seen 

 only 4 times, May 24 and September 6, 1890; June 2 and Septem- 

 ber 16, 1889. 



Empidonax virescens. Green-crested Flycatcher. — Rare. One 

 taken May 21, 1888. 



Empidonax traillii. Traill's Flycatcher. — Common summer resi- 

 dent. Earliest seen. May 1, 1888. 



Empidonax minimus. Least Flycatcher. — Rare transient. One 

 taken May 4, 1889. 



Octocoris alpestris. Horned Lark. — Tolerably common winter 

 resident. 



Otocoris alpestris praticoia. Prairie Horned Lark. — Abundant 

 summer resident. A nest with half incubated eggs, April 12, 1892. 



Cyanocitta cristata. Blue Jay. — Abundant resident, and even 

 more numerous during the migrations. Nest with five eggs. May 

 14, 1892. 



Corvus braclnyrhynchos. American Crow. — Abundant resident. 

 Earliest nest, with five eggs, April 2, 1890. 



Molotlirus ater. Cowbird. — Abundant summer resident. March 

 26 to October 1.3. Earliest eggs. May 3, 1890, in Phoebe's nest. 



Dolichonyx oryzivorus. Bobolink. — Common summer resident. 

 Earliest arrival. April 28, 1887. Fresh eggs. May 28, 1889. 



Agelaius pinoeniceus. Red-winged Blackbird. — Abundant summer 

 resident, and migrant. February 23 to November 11. Occasionally 

 a strag'gler is seen in winter. Earliest eggs. May 21, 1887. 



Sturnella magna. Meadowlark. — Abundant summer resident. An 

 occasional straggler remains all winter. March 13 to November 2. 

 Eggs, May 27, 1887. 



Icterus spurius. Orchard Oriole. — Abundant summer resident. 

 Earliest spring arrival, April 26. Three eggs, May 21, 1887. 



icterus galbula. Baltimore Oriole. — Abundant summer resident. 

 April 27 to September 5. Five eggs, May 30, 1889. 



Euphagus carol inus. Rui-ty Blackbird.- — Abundant migrant. Us- 

 ually found in flocks with the other blackbirds and grackles. March 

 23 to April 30; September 14 to December 7. A pair wintered on 

 Rock Island Arsenal during the winter 18991900. They became 

 tame and came every day to the guard house for the crumbs which 

 the guards threw out to them. 



Quiscalus quiscula aeneus. Bronzed Grackle. — Abundant summer 

 resident. March 8 to November 5. Earliest eggs, May 1, 1886. A 

 colony of several hundred pairs used to nest in Pine Hill Cemetery, 

 just outside of Davenport, but in recent years it has been reduced 



