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Red-headed Woodpecker. 



nicker. 



Chimney Swift. 



Kin,nhird. 



IMuebe. 



Prairie Horned Lark. 



lUne Jay 



American Crow. 



Bobolink. 



Cliff Swallow. 

 Rarn Swallow. 

 Tree Swallow 

 Bank Swallow. 

 White-rumped Slirike. 

 Yellow Warbler 

 Western Yellow-throat. 

 House W^ren 

 Robin. 



Readers of The Bullktix must be familiar with the land- 

 scape sttrrouiidiiig Grinnell, from former descriptions of mine. 

 It is but a part of this same woods-dotted rolHng prairie, upon 

 which countless artificial groves have sprung up with the farm 

 hou.ses. There is now practically no native prairie in all that 

 region. In a quarter of a century great changes have taken 

 place which have .seriousl)- affected some birds, cau.sing more 

 or le.ss modification in the habits of most of them, but the 

 fauna is made up of the .same species still. 



I was at Grinnell from Augtist 17 to "io, alwaj-s on the 

 lookout for birds, but making only two special efforts to find 

 them. One of the.se was an early morning, when ->•> species 

 w^ere recorded, .some of them fall migrants. The other was an 

 hour spent in the old home woods where birds first came to be 

 anything to me. It was mid -afternoon. The wealth of bird 

 life in this singularly favored spot is attested by ol species 

 seen. Btit the day of its glory has pas.sed. Next June corn 

 will spring up where trees have stood for centtiries. One of 

 mother Nature's pearls has been cast before — but it isn't the 

 old home any more. 



Grinnell, Iowa. Aug. 17-'2'). 



Yellow-legs. 

 Spotted Sandpiper. 

 Bartramian Sandpiper. 

 Killdeer. 

 Bob-white. 

 Mourning Dove. 

 Cooper's Hawk. 

 Red-tailed Hawk. 

 Red-shouldered Hawk. 

 Sparrow Hawk 

 Screech Owl. 

 Yellow-billed Cuckoo. 



Bf)bolink. 



Red-winged Blackl>ird. 

 Meadowlark. 

 Baltimore Oriole. 

 Orchard Oriole. 

 Bronzed Crackle. 

 American Goldfinch. 

 Field Sparrow. 

 Towhee. 



Rose-breasted Orosbeak. 

 Indigo Bunting. 

 Dickcissel. 



