i3o The Wilson Bulletin — No. 53. 



nests I found two of the robin containing lour eggs each. Rather 

 early considering the backward season. Snow fell so thick at. 

 times that nothing could be seen at fifty yards. Average tempera- 

 ture 34°. 



April 30 — Went out for warblers to-day and secured seven species, 

 those a trifle early being Black and White, Chestnut-sided and 

 Tennessee. 



May 2 — First Nighthawk to-day. 



May 4 — My brother found a Prairie Horned Lark's nest (in the 

 city of Wyandotte) to-day containing five eggs. An unusually large 

 set, three cr four being the common number. 



June 21 — Saw a female Lesser Scaup Duck today and yesterday 

 in the marsh bordering the Detroit River in River Rouge Village. 

 Was very tame. Never before observed by me in summer. 



July 3 — Towards evening tc-day I saw a bird in the chestnut tree 

 in front of the house which, from general size and shape, I took 

 to be a Yellcw-thrcated Vireo. Some peculiarity of motion soon 

 riveted my attention; then I saw the white eye-ring and dashed 

 into the house for the field glass. In the meantime the bird had 

 very kindly come down into the lower branches. Yes, it was a fe- 

 male Connecticut Warbler. Now I am wondering whether she was 

 a late spring or early fall migrant — probably the latter. During 

 the regular migration I saw my first specimen, a female, on May 

 9. and last, a male, en May 21 — the rule reversed. 



J. CLAIRE WOOD 



Wayne County, Michigan. 



BIRD MIGRATION AT KIRKWOOD, GEORGIA. 



15V ROBERT WINDSOR SMITH. 



The following records, made during the month of April, 1900. 

 within a radius of three miles from Kirkwood station, DeKab) 

 county, are worthv rf permanent preservation. The dates given 

 are those upon which the species enumerated under them were 

 first seen. These records, which represent a great amount o 

 careful and persistent work on the part of Mr. Smith, furnish a" 

 excellent basis fcr comparison with regions farther to the north. — 

 I Ed iter.] 



April 1, I! a. m.. temperature 32°. Thin coating of ice in the 

 horse trough. Peach and plum blooms well out. Pears just show- 

 ing the white in the bud. Forest trees showing green in the bud.-. 



April 3. 72°. Word Pe\V< e. 



April 4, 56°. Myrtle Warbler. 



April 10, 60°. Yellow Warbler. Black and White WaTbler, Syca 

 more Warbler, Kentucky Warbler, Hooded Warbler. Indigo Bunt- 

 ing, Summer Tanager, Red-eyed Vireo, White-eyed Vireo, Louis- 

 iana Water-Thrush. Maryland Yellow-throat, Weed Thrush. 



