Field Notes. 199. 



NOTES FROM SOUTH DAKOTA. 



May 14. 1911, I was around a partly dried up slough that is lo- 

 cated about eight miles southwest of Sioux Falls, and while there 

 had the good fortune to run across two Stilt Sandpipers. I ap- 

 proached to within a couple of rods of them and with the aid of 

 eight-power binoculars I fuHy identified them. They were feed- 

 ing together in the water among a flock of Wilson Phalaropes, 

 Lesser Yellow-legs, and others. 



A June Bird Day Near Sioux Falls, South Dakota. — June 11, 

 at 7 a. m., started on a bird hunt, which lasted until 8 p. m. 

 Took in the woods along Big Sioux river and Skunk creek — fields, 

 prairies, meadows and a couple of small, nearly dried up sloughs. 

 The sky was overcast most of the time and a heavy wind from 

 the northwest was blowing steady all day long. The result : 



1. Black Tern. — Common around the sloughs. 



2. Hooded Merganser. — Fourteen seen on the river. 



3. Mallard. — Three in the sloughs. 



4. Blue-winged Teal. — Common in the sloughs, 

 n. Shoveller. — Common in the sloughs. 



6. Lesser Scaup Duck. — Common in the sloughs. 



7. Bittern. — Common. 



8. Green Heron. — Common along Skunk creek. 



9. Black-crowned Night Heron. — Common. 



10. Coot. — Only two or three. 



11. Wilson Phalarope. — Common about the sloughs. 



12. Pectoral Sandpiper. — Common about the sloughs, 

 lo. Baird's Sandpiper. — One with the Pectorals. 



14. Lesser Yellow-legs. — Only two. 



in. Upland Plover. — Common on the prairies. 



16. Killdeer. — Common around the sloughs. 



17. Spotted Sandpiper. — Common along the river. 



18. Bob-white.^Two. 



19. Prairie Chicken. — Two. 



20. Mourning Dove. — Common. 



21. Marsh Hawk. — One. 



22. Yellow-billed Cuckoo. — Common along the river. 



23. Black-billed Cuckoo. — Not as common as the Yellow-billed. 



24. Belted Kingfisher. 



25. Hairy Woodpecker. — One. 



26. Downy Woodpecker. — One. 



27. Northern Flicker. — Common. 



28. Chimney Swift. — Common in the city. 



29. Kingbird. — Common. 



