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from Cairo for a mile or more. It is the southernmost point 

 reachable in our State. 



Its peculiar position renders it unique in some respects, 

 situated, as it is, at the sharp angular meeting place of two 

 great rivers, as well as migration thoroughfares, which latter 

 fact alone would readily suggest to our minds interesting pos- 

 sibilities in the way of birds. 



This statement doubtless would hold true of it during the 

 height of the season of migration and otherwise, perhaps, if a 

 much longer time could have been given to it as a locality. 



But, as it was, my investigations failed to yield the hoped 

 for results and withal were somewhat disappointing. So, 

 therefore, what little value there is in these notes really has 

 more to do with what was not seen than what was actually re- 

 corded. Elimination, in this instant cuts something of afigure. 



Still, after all, a hurried inspection of any given locality, 

 however promising at first sight, with worked out results tliat 

 afterward are uncompromisingly poor, as they almost proved 

 to be in this case, is hardly a fit test of its actual capabilities at 

 all times. 



It is so here at home, one day ever varying with another, 

 and consequently why should it not be so in places with which 

 we are less familiar ? Then again, as all of us, are equally 

 aware, and who have given much attention to the movements 

 of birds, the hours of the day have everything to do in the de- 

 termination of important results. 



Arriving at Cairo on the evening of September 28, it was 

 learned with regret that no convenient connection with the 

 north bound train over the " Big Four " could be made until 3 

 P. M. of the day following. So, to improve the spare time, 

 thus thrown upon my hands a number of Cairo bird-horizons 

 were proposed, and, among other places, " The Point," as it is 

 locally called, was selected to be visited. During the night we 

 experienced a heavy shower and although subsiding, it had left 

 its threatening effects in the sky when the morning came on. 

 1 had seen one flock of Ducks and another of Geese (?) going 

 southward during the early A.M., over Ohio, and had heard 

 the clear-cut notes of the Carolina Wren in the little park fac- 



