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The Wilson Bulletin — No. 62. 



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APRIL (Continued). 



partly 



23 N 12 50 cloudy 



partly 



24 SW 18 54 cloudy 



26 NE 15 35 clear 



pai'tly 



27 E 12 44 cloudy 



28 NE 8 49 cloudy 



partly 

 30 NE 21 36 cloudy 



partly 



2 NE 6 40 cloudy 



3 N 20 42 cloudy 



partly 



4 SE 11 38 cloudy 



5 S 12 45 cloudy 



partly 



6 NE 10 45 cloudy 



7 NE 12 44 clear 



NE 11 46 



clear 



N 12 58 clear 



First Spotted Sandpiper, Palm War- 

 bler and Blue-gray Gnatcateher. 



Bronzed Grackles nesting. First com- 

 mon Tern and House Wren. 



Small red butterfly and Dragon-fly. 

 First Hooded Merganser. 



Horned Grebes common. First Long- 

 billed ^Nlarsh Wren and Black and 

 White Warbler. 



Catalpa leaves 1% in. long. First 

 Grinnell's Water-Tlarusb. First Green 

 Heron, Solitary Sandpiper, Hens- 

 low's Sparrow, Lark Sparrow, Barn 

 Swallow, Rough-winged Swallow, and 

 Black-throated Green Warbler. 



Willow leaves about li/^ in. long. A 

 great influx of Towhees and White- 

 throated Sparrows. 



MAY. 



Last Bonaparte Gull. Blue-winged 

 Teal common. 



Last Red-breasted Merganser seen. 

 Common Terns c. 



200 Lesser Scaups. First Parula 

 Warbler, Cape May Warbler, and 

 Black Tern. 



First Bobolink and Grasshopper Spar- 

 row. 



First Wood Thrush and Willow Thrush. 



Hawthorne leaves % in. ; Ash flowers 

 1 in. ; cheri'y leaves 1 in. long ; May 

 apples 2-3 in. high ; white trilliums 

 in bud. Dog-tooth violets, anemones, 

 butter cups. First Kingbird. Num- 

 bers of migrants arrive. First Yel- 

 low Warblers. 



Traill's Flycatcher, Least Flycatcher, 

 White-crowned Sparrow, Black- 

 throated Blue AViarbler, Prairie 

 Warbler. Redstart, Oven-bird, Cat- 

 bird. Blue-winged Teal and Lesser 

 Scaups common at Fox Lake. Also 

 an eagle (species?). Trees are still 

 bare of leaves. Black Terns abund- 

 ant at Fox Lake. 



More migrants arrive. First Chim- 

 ney Swifts, Crested Flycatcher. Ol- 

 ive-backed Thrush. Green-crested 

 Flycatcher, Chipping-Sparrow, Rose- 

 breasted Grosbeak, Cliff Swallow. 



