WILSON BULLETIN 



NO. Ill 

 A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY 



VOL. XXXII JUNE, 1920 NO. 2 



OLD SERIES VOL. XXXn. NEW SERIES VOL. XXVII. 



LIST OF BIRDS MADE DURING EIGHTEEN MONTHS' 

 SERVICE IN FRANCE AND GERMANY 



BY COLIN CAMPBELL SANBORN 

 Read before the Chicago Ornithological Society, June 10, 1919. 



During the war I was in the artillery, with the 42d, or 

 Rainbow Division, which saw eighteen months' service in 

 France and Germany, from October 19, 1917, to April 19, 

 1919. While in France I had but little time to give to 

 birds, and most of my observations were made while on 

 duty. During our three and a half months' stay in Ger- 

 many, however, I found quite a little time to study orni- 

 thology. 



In order that the reader may follow me in my refer- 

 ence to localities, I shall give a brief resum^ of the time 

 spent in the different parts of the countries. 



Landing at St. Nazaire, France, the artillery brigade 

 went to Camp de Coetquedan, in Brittany. This camp is 

 about fifty miles from the coast, and is one of the oldest 

 artillery ranges known, having been started by Napoleon. 

 The country here is hilly and the ground very rocky. We 

 stayed here until February 18, 1918, when we left for the 

 front. 



The first hundred and ten days at the front, or until 

 about the last of June, were spent in the Lorraine sector, 

 between the towns of Luneville and Baccart. This was 

 more or less of a quiet sector and I had a little time to 

 myself, but could never go very far from the horse lines, 



