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10. Black-crowned Night Heron, i in slough No. 6. Several Dickcissels, 

 3 near by and one Bartramian Sandpiper, i. Flushed two King Rails 

 here, 2. Five more Dickcissels in same locality, 5. Also six BoVjolinks, 0. 

 Total 62. 



Approaching Mitchell's woods : Crow, 10. Grasshopper Sparrov^', i. 

 Vesper Sparrow, i. Field Sparrow, i. Scarlet Tanager in song, i. 

 Cowbird, i. And my old favorite, which I have not recorded in two 

 seasons past, the Lark Sparrow, i. Total 16. 



In Mitchell's woods, 12 to i p. m., while resting and eating lunch, the 

 following heard : Indigobird, i. Oven-bird, 2. Red-eyed Vireo, 5. 

 Total 8. 



Passing hurriedly through these woods, the following heard or seen : 

 Kingbird, 2. Flicker, i. Catbird, i. Blue Jay, i. Crow, 5. Wood 

 Pewee, i. Total 11. 



Approaching the creek-bottom, I had occasion to cross a wet, grassy 

 place, and found there two Savanna Sparrows chipping near me, each 

 with food in its bill and evidently the parents of young close at hand. 

 Four Barn Swallows, 4, were seen here passing back and forth over the 

 same ground and also over the creek close by. As the day was very 

 warm at this time quietness reigned along the creek, two Crows, 2, only 

 being seen. Near the Lisle woods I heard the Bluebird's call, i. In the 

 creek-bottom, Song Sparrows, 3. Another Savanna sings, i, and three 

 Maryland Yellow-throats, also in song, 3. Bobolinks again to the num- 

 ber of 5. Catbird on nest beside its mate, 2, in cornus, willow and wild 

 grape-vine thicket bordering the creek. An Alder Flycatcher, i, seen 

 here, and one Indigobird in song, i. Total 25. 



Going hastily through the Lisle woods the songs of many (at least ten) 

 Red-eyed Vireos were heard on all sides, and several Indigos (six at least) 

 greeted me. Four more Crows, 4. Red-shouldered Hawk, i. Blue Jay, 

 3. Crested Flycatcher, i. Three Black-crowned Night Herons, 3, (one 

 young among them) flushed from button-bush swamps. A Green Heron, 

 I, calls near by in those notes which so much resemble the casting down 

 of rail-road track iron in the distance. Downy Woodpecker, i. Scarlet 

 Tanager, 2, in song. Yellow-billed Cuckoos, 2, call. Red-headed 

 Woodpecker, 2. Ovenbird, 2. Total 38. 



Journeying northward along the river, little attention being given to 

 several small groves of timber through which I passed, the birds of the 

 marsh and field again being my specialty. Dickcissel, 8. Grasshopper 

 Sparrow, i. Savanna Sparrow, 3. Brown Thrasher, i. Black-crowned 

 Night Heron, i. Henslow's Sparrow, i. Meadowlark, 5. Bobolink, 2. 



