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adults with unusual vigur or birds of the year? Is the autumn 

 song period ever accompanied li.v a period of mating phenomena? 

 These and other (juestions relating to the same subject are ques- 

 tions well worth careful study. It is entirely jiossible that their 

 careful consideration might throw light (Mi other phases of bird 

 life. 



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Illinois Notes. — The Cardinal ( ('. cunliiialis) at Glen Ellyn. It 

 is with pleasure that I am enabled at last to add the Cardinal to 

 our local list. For years it has been known to nest in the county 

 and is now regularly found at points in the adjoining county of 

 Cook to the eastward; so. that so far as northeastern Illinois is 

 considered, the northward movement of this species is a well-settled 

 fact. 



Possibly it may have occurred here sooner, for what has been 

 described to me as seen by others was unquestionably this bird. 

 Still, for the writer, its status has remained undertermined until 

 recently, when on the loth of August last the cheery notes of the 

 male bird were heard in our woods for the tirst time. On the day 

 following the.v were heard again, soon after which the author of 

 same must have disappeared. Of the Cardinal's song I feel abso- 

 lutely sure, and believe there can be no doubt as to the correctness 

 of this record. 



Tin-: Caiioi.i.n.v When ('riujiothuiHK Itidoricitniiis) at IIennk- 

 i"ix. — The expansion or northward extension of the range of the 

 Cardinal has been attended it seems by a like one on the part of 

 other species as well: for example, here in IHinois we may men- 

 tion the Carolina Wren and KelTs \'ire(). the latter having been 

 found nesting at Joliet. 



There is a possibility also of a similar movement on the part of 

 I'.ewick's Wren, while the facts concerning 7'. liidoricianiis have 

 lieen noticed in other parts of the country. 



Writing to me under date of Aiiril '_M. I'.HH). our fellow member. 

 Hon. K. M. Barnes, of Lacon. Marshall County, this State, has this 

 to sa.v, in relation to the latter : 



"Yesterday at Hennepin, twenty-one miles nortli of here. I made 

 a discovery which was entirely new. I saw sitting in the yard 

 adjoining the pulilic jiark and also ailjoining the business part of 

 tiie towiL an adult Carolina Wren, and made a very careful in- 

 vestigation of the singer — stayed w itii him at least a half an liour. 

 I have never seen the bird before in tlie Stale of Illinois." 



It may be of interest to state in this connection that Ellen Drum- 

 mond Farwell has recorded in "The Auk" (Vol. XIX, p. 1*09) the 



