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Yellow-billed Cuckoo. 



Belted Kingfisher. 



Downy Woodpecker. 



Red-headed Woodpecker. 



Flicker. 



Night hawk. 



Chimney Swift. 



Kingbird. 



Wood Pewee. 



Traill's Fh'catcher. 



Prairie Horned Lark. 



Blue Ja}\ 



American Crow. 



Bobolink. 



Red-winged Blackbird. 



INIeadowlark. 



While-runiped Shrike. 

 Red-eyed Vireo. 

 Yellow-throated Vireo. 

 Black-and-white Warbler. 

 Tennessee Warbler. 

 Black-throated Blue Warbler. 

 Magnolia Warbler. 

 Blackburnian Warbler. 

 American Redstart. 

 Catbird. 



Brown Thrasher. 

 Short-billed IVIarsh Wren. 

 Chickadee. 

 Wood Thrush. 

 Olive-backed Thrush. 

 American Robin. 

 Bluebird. 



There are occasions when we wish for the abttndance of 

 time which seems to be at the service of the Orientals. It was 

 but a short call, scarcely more than a glimpse, with a few of 

 the man)' Chicago friends. But even a glimpse remains as a 

 pleasant memory. 



The return from Glen Ellyn to Chicago marked the close 

 of the ornithological reconnoissance, for we left Oberlin at 

 nightfall and returned during the night. The time covered 

 was thus exactl}- two months — June '29 to and including August 

 28. The states traversed are Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, New 

 Mexico, i\rizona, California, Oregon, Wa.shington, Idaho, Mon- 

 tana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois, not to men- 

 tion a few hotus spent in British Columbia among the Band- 

 tailed Pigeons. There were stops, from inconsiderable to con- 

 siderable, in New Mexico, Arizona, California, Washington, 

 Montana, Iowa and Illinois. Idaho should really be counted 

 out, since darkness hid it from view. Of course there was 

 much of the countrj- passed over during the night which cotild 

 not be seen, and not a few breaks in the bird life, but on the 

 whole there was far more profit than loss. A second time over 

 the same ground would no doubt discover some species over- 

 looked the first time, but under practically the same conditions 

 there would necessarih' be far smaller results. 



The species recorded number oOV), ISl of them being new 

 to the writer's life list. Of this number ( l^l ) onlv 18 were seen 



