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bird was in an excellent condition and flew rapidly away, prov- 

 ing that she was in no way a crippled bird. Evidently the Blue- 

 winged Teal is a rare summer resident at the Grand Reser- 

 voir. No other water birds were seen. Tree Swallows and 

 Martins v,eve very common and i am surprised to see how 

 commonly, in northern Ohio, the Purple Martin takes to the 

 woods and swamps to nest, and how rare comparatively the 

 species is, while in southern Ohio, it is hardly ever seen away 

 from the bird houses and is a common bird. The ordinary 

 Ohio land birds were all common at the Reservoir with the 

 exception of the House Wren, which was rather rare. All 

 told 67 species of birds were heard or seen. 



It certainly does not pay an ornithologist to make a visit 

 to the Grand Reservoir, except in the migration seasons, the 

 Ivicking Reservoir no doubt being the most profitable inland 

 body of water in Ohio. The interesting things which Mr. 

 Dury found at the Grand Reservoir in former years are gone 

 for good, and after coming to this conclusion we wearily 

 tramped the nine miles back to Montezuma, packed our 

 grips and went home. 



JULY FOURTH CENSO-HORIZONS, 1904. 



Judging from the writer's experience, the Independence 

 Day bird work was far less interesting and inspiring than the 

 May migration work, and it was entered into with that lack of 

 enthusiasm which summer heat is pretty certain to bring about. 

 However, the work actually done proves that there is, after all 

 work to be done in sunnner which will count quite as much as 

 the May work in the final result. Heat, foliage, and last but 

 not least, insects, make bird study in summer irksome. Take 

 away the annoyance of the insects and I venture to assert that 

 the present hesitancy about going into the woods in July 

 would give place to commendable enthusiasm. L,et us hope 

 that so much of the millennial time will soon come. 



The reports which have been received cover a pretty wide 

 range of country, but are not as well scattered as the May re- 

 ports. They are interesting in disclosing what are in the breed- 

 ing birds of the several regions. One would suppose that a 



