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both Mr. Smith and her before her husband's death, and 

 obtained a record of all specimens taken locally. 



As in my former article, all data are based on careful 

 sight records, specimens found dead, or specimens in the 

 Smith collection. I do not expect subspecific sight records 

 to be accorded the same value that they would have had 

 the specimen been taken. In scientific names for sub- 

 species, I have followed Anderson's "Birds of Iowa." 

 Other names follow the A. O. U. 1910 checklist. I have 

 not listed some of the vireos and flycatchers which un- 

 doubtedly occur, owing to the difficulty of sight identifica- 

 tion. The migration data would be much more complete, 

 had I been able to devote more time to it, especiall}' in the 

 later years of the record. However it is a good average 

 for the region about Wall Lake. My complete records are 

 in the possession of the Biological Survey at Washington, 

 D. C, should further information be desired. 

 Annotated List 



BURROWING OWLS IN SAC COUNTY, IOWA 

 (Addenda to Former Article) 

 In July, 1917. I saw two burrowing owls five and one-half 

 miles north of Wall Lake, and also an occupied burrow. The old 

 birds circled anxiously about as though their young were in the 

 burrow. On the same day, I saw another pair about three miles 

 north of this on one of the hills bordering Indian Creek. 



Carolina Paroquet (Conuropsis carolinensis) . 



I found no observers of this bird but give the following quo- 

 tation from " The Birds of Iowa " by Rudolph Martin Anderson. 

 Proceedings of Davenport Academy of Sciences, March, 1907. pages 

 269, 270, 271. " The beautiful Carolina paroquet formerly ranged 

 in flocks as far as the northern part of the state, but has not been 

 observed in the state for at least thirty years and has practicuriy 

 been exterminated throughout the United States. 



' Paul Bartsch, in an article on ' Birds Extinct in Iowa and 

 those Becoming so,' states that the paroquet formerly ranged as 

 far north as Spirit Lake, where it would frequently remain until 

 the cold and snow would drive it southward. Its food in winter 

 consisted chiefly of the seeds of the cocklebur. Its nature was so 

 peculiar that when one of the number was killed or wounded, the 

 others would gather around It with shrill cries and in this way 

 the entire flock could easily be annihilated." 



