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Further Notes on Indiana Birds. 



By Amos W. Butler. 



The followin;; notes on the birds observed in Indiana and adjacent 

 state.s are wortliy of record. 

 Prairie Worhlrr. I (endroica discolor (Vieill.t 



Mr. I'liilip r>aker shot a spec-inieu of this warliler near Ilelnisbnrsr. 

 BroAvn Connty, July 7, 1910, and another near the same place July 15, 

 15!]0. Bnth of these were sent to nie foi' veiification. He learned t'le r 

 song. July 22, l'.)10, he heard another in a different locality. In 11)11 he 

 heard one on May 7 and another June 14. In 1912 he saw two on May 27, 

 and June 2."> heard live near Nashville. All of the above were in Brown 

 County. Mr. Baker says they frequent the sassafras thickets of aban- 

 doned hillsides. He adds, "I !ia\e no dorlii t'le bii'ds c n!d be founl 

 nesting in this and similar localities in Brown County." Some of the 

 above dates, it will be observed, come witliin tlie breeding season. 



Mr. Percival Brooks Coffin reports a male of this bird from Millers, 

 Lake County, Ind.. .May 1(1. 19(i9. One was noted by Miss Hazel Heath 

 at New I'aris, Ohio, A]\vU 11. I'ldD. I'l'of. Norman A. Wood. Ann Arbor, 

 Mich., notes one at that place May 11. I!i09: ne.xt seen May 12. Bare. 

 Does not breed. 



Miss Caroline M. CariK'uter, of Bichmond. Ind., in a list of birds 

 identified .at Lake Maxinkuckee between May s and IC. 1911, reports this 

 bird. 

 Yellou'-Jirddcd lil<icl-hinJ. Xantho<'ephalus xanthocephalus (Bonap.). 



Mr. I'ercival Brooks Cofthi of Chicago reports a Yellow-headed Black- 

 bird at Millers, Lake County, Indiana., May 16, 1909. Mr. Clarence Guy 

 Littell reports seeing one at Winona Lake, Kosciusko County, the summer 

 of 1902. Ind. Lniv, Bull. Vol. 1. No. 4, 1903, p. 57.) 

 White Pcliean. I'elecanns erythrorhynchos Gmel. 



Professor Glenn Culbertson, Hanover College, reports tliat a White 

 Pelican was killed on the Ohio Biver near Hanover, Jefferson County, 

 May 0, 1909. Miss Hazel Heatli informs me of the occurrence of two of 

 these birds at New Paris, Ohio, August 22 and 23, 1912. 



