12 The Wilson Bulletin — Xo. 110 



136. Chcetura pelagica — Chimney Swift. 



A rather unusual summer visitor about St. Marks. Farther 

 inland more numerous, but I have not found it abundant at any 

 place in our county. Local name, " Bat " and " Chimney Bat." 

 March 31, 1915, September 17, 1914, October 22, 1917. 



137. Archilocus colubris — Ruby-throated Hummingbird. 



While never occurring in numbers we have this dainty sprite 

 regularly during the warmer months. April 3, 1915, October 8, 

 1915. 



BLUEBIRD MIGRATIONS — 1917. 



BY HOWARD CLARK BROWN 



On March thirteenth, 1917, there appeared in the 

 Charles City Daily Press of Charles City, Iowa, a notice 

 that the Califor Naturalist Club of that city had estab- 

 lished a bird bureau. The notice read that the Naturalist 

 club, in order that it might know when the various spring 

 birds arrived that year, had established a bird bureau to 

 which all information concerning birds might be reported. 

 It was felt that if all observers would only report their 

 observations to a single compiling bureau much might be 

 accomplished in learning the routes of migration and the 

 time of first arrivals, etc., which would else be lost. The 

 plan had been adopted because each j^ear the club had felt 

 the need for some sort of concentration of just such mater- 

 ial as came to them from varied sources at all manner of 

 inconvenient times. And thus it happened that two mem- 

 bers of the organization took it upon themselves to keep 

 the records for the community. The telephone numbers of 

 these two members were published in the daily paper and 

 all sorts of birds notes were asked for. The result was 

 astonishing. It was found that the responses from every 

 side were unusually eager. Since that date of establish- 

 ment of the bureau, each year has seen an added interest in 

 its work, and each year has added new observers. Hun- 

 dreds of bird notes have been reported to the bureau. As 

 yet, no single printed record has been issued to tell of the 



