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everywhere. Heard half a dozen bluebirds while ou tramp 

 this A, M." ' On the eleventh I was again on a tramp and 

 saw a flock of forty or more. Most of the snow was gone 

 by that date. Some of the ice in the river was also going 

 down stream. It snowed nearly all day the twelfth but the 

 temperature remained high. On the fourteenth I find the 

 following comment: "Part of last night and this morning 

 six to eight inches of damp snow fell here and the weather 

 has turned considerably colder." ^ This, then, is the sort 

 of background which we secured for the Bluebird day 

 which brought such splendid records. That February 

 twenty-fifth is an unusually early date for the appearance 

 of the bluebird, is connnented upon in a report from the 

 Califor Naturalist Club which appeared in its bird notes 

 in the local press. In 1914, the first bluebird was reported 

 ou March seventh. In 1915, March twenty-seventh was the 

 first date of appearance, and in 191 (>, March twelve. March 

 third, 1918, and March sixteen, 1919, completes our record 

 of first appearances. 



On the fourteenth of March, 1917, the first day after 

 the article soliciting bird records appeared in the local 

 press, eighteen difi'erent observers reported bluebirds. One 

 flock which was estimated to consist of at least two hun- 

 dred individuals was reportefl from northwest of town. 

 Another which was reported by several observers laud 

 which contained about one hundred birds passed through 

 the city about mid-day, flying toward the river. On March 

 ninth, a large flock of bluebirds was reported some nine 

 miles south-east of town by Mrs. H. E. Winterink. The 

 location of this flock was significant because it was in a 

 region of moderately dense woods where much food might 

 be obtained. Also, it was not far from the river. There 

 seems to be sufficient evidence that the migrating birds of 

 this region follow the river to a far greater extent than we 



" Quoted from Daily Record of H. Brown for March 10, 1917. 

 ' Note in report of Mrs. Ella E. Webster, Bird Bureau Re- 

 corder. 



