THE 



WILSON BULLETIN 



No. 88. 



A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ORXITHOLOGY 

 VOL. XXVI SEPTEMBER, 1914. No. 3 



OLD SERIES VOL. XXVI. NEW SERIES VOL. XXI. 



THE PROTHOXOTARY AVARBLER AT LAKE 

 OKOBOJI, IOWA. 



By T. C. Stephens. 



Ou July 4, 1914, our entire camp* was takeu on an excur- 

 sion along the southwest shore of Lake Okoboji, Iowa. At 

 noon the party was to eat lunch at a point on the west shore 

 known as Elm Crest. They had been carried in relays across 

 Emerson's Bay so that the first to reach the destination had 

 some time at their OAvn disposal before the last ones arrived. 



As I came up I Avas met by Mr. H. C. Pollock Avho, Avith 

 evident excitement, informed me that he had seen a bird 

 which he thought must be a Prothonotary Warbler. I Avas 

 naturally a little skeptical as to the identification, but never- 

 theless anxious to see Avhat he had found. 



We were in the immediate \ucinity of a summer cottage 

 OAA-ned by Mr. A. J. Goodell, Avhich had, as j'et, not been 

 opened for the season. It Avas surrounded by a heavy groAvth 

 of timber, mostly oaks. Very soon Ave heard a clear, but gentle, 

 "weet, weet, tveet, weet," and Mr. Pollock exclaimed, ''There 

 is the bird"; and it was but a moment till aa'c had our glasses 

 focused upon her. 



'.Students of the Jlacbride (Iowa) Lakeside Laboratory. 



