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Marsh Hawk. Bronzed Cxrackle. 



Red-shouldered Hawk American Goldfinch. 



Sparrow Hawk. Western Vesper Sparrow. 



Black-billed Cuckoo, Song Sparrow. 



Belted Kingfisher. Dickcissel. 



Red-headed Woodpecker. Barn Swallow, 



l-'licker. Yellow Warbler. 



' Western Yellow-throat. 



At midnight we were in the St. Paul depot, the first train 

 out leaving at seven the next morning. So far as eyes could 

 see St. Paul has a midnight closing ordinance, rigidly enforced, 

 which applies to saloons, hotels and boarding houses indis- 

 criminately. But the depot was warm and the seats arranged 

 for one — sitting upright. 



The day on which I should again be at my old Iowa home 

 opened ornithologically as we were crossing the Mississippi 

 River, where four of the five possible swallows were breakfast- 

 ing. The bird world had now become wholly familiar, and 

 beyond the likelihood of introducing anything new, yet it was 

 none the less interesting. I felt among friends and familiar 

 acquaintances once more, after weeks of foreign travel. The 

 greatest interest attached to the changing ph3'sical conditions 

 well illustrated by the farming interests. Passing through the 

 distinctively wheat belt and the transition belt, poorly defined 

 of course, we emerged into the midst of the great corn belt. 

 Never have I seen such corn ! It was simply a marvellous crop, 

 barring accidents late in the season. In natural things one 

 could not help remarking the disappearance of the continuous 

 or nearly continuous woods of Minnesota, and in its place the 

 woods-dotted rolling prairies of Iowa. In the more settled 

 regions Minnesota and Iowa can not be told apart. 



St. Paul, Minn., to Grinnell, Iowa. Aug. 15. 



(yreater Yellow-legs. Cowbird. 



Yellow-legs. Red-winged Blackbird. 



Solitary Sandpiper. Meadowlark. 



Spotted Sandpiper. Baltimore Oriole. 



Mourning Dove. Bronzed Grackle. 



Red-tailed Hawk. American Goldfinch. 



Broad-winged Hawk. Vesper vSparrow. 



Sparrow Hawk. Lark Sparrow 



Yellow-billed Cuckoo. Dickcissel. 



