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County records: * Blackhawk — "accidental" (Peck); "once in 

 May, 1898, at Cedar Falls" (Walters). Des Moines — "even so far 

 north as Burlington, Iowa, it was twice seen during the winter. 

 It is possible that these last were escaped cage birds, but there 

 was nothing in their actions to indicate it" (Cooke, Bird Migr. in 

 Miss. Val., 1884-85, p. 265). Floyd — "A single specimen taken 

 at Charles City" (Keyes and Williams, Birds of Iowa, p. 156). 

 Lee — "scarce summer resident; breeds" (Praeger); "summer res- 

 ident, irregular in numbers" (Currier); "rare summer resident" 

 (Berry). Marshall — "one seen September 3, 1894, i^ company 

 with about thirty Kingbirds" (Iowa Orn., i, 2, 1895, P- 52)- Pow- 

 eshiek-Jasper — "June 25, x\ugust 24, and October 21, in both the 

 central counties mentioned" (PI. W. Parker, Am. Nat., v, 1871, p. 

 168). Polk — "Have mounted one or two killed near here; very 

 rare" (Johnson). Sioux — "I have found only one nest, in an ev- 

 ergreen tree in the front yard of Mr. Okey, in Hull, Iowa" (John- 

 son). Van Buren — "One observed in 1894" (W. G. Savage). 

 Woodbury — "Rare summer resident. Possibly only a single bird, 

 but was seen at several localities, all in same suburb. May 30, 

 June I, 1902. Was said to have been seen a year before in same 

 neighborhood" (Rich). Wayne — "summer" (A. J. Brown). War- 

 ren — "Found just once, nesting. May 8-20, 1898" (Jeffrey). 

 Thomas Say also observed the species {Tia-dus po/yglottos) 1819- 

 20, at Engineers' Cantonment (Long's Exp., i, p. 263). 



Genus GaleoscoptEvS Cabanis. 

 327. (704). Galeoscoptes carolinensis {IJinn.). Catbird. 



The Catbird is a very familiar and abundant summer resident 

 in all parts of the state, arriving from the 20th to the 30th of 

 April and remaining until the latter part of September. B. H. 

 Wilson reports a single specimen at Rock Island Arsenal as 

 late as November 5, 1899, and C. K. Salisbury reports that a 

 Catbird, probably a cripple, stayed during nearly all the winter of 

 1902-03 in an orchard in Blackhawk county. The eggs are gen- 

 erally five in number, rich greenish-blue in color, laid in the latter 

 part of May and first part of June, although Wilson reports a set 

 of two eggs as early as May 17 (Scott), and they are frequently 

 found as late as July. The nests are usually placed in thickets, 

 in gooseberry, raspberry and other bushes, or in tangled grape 



