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In Indiana, Mr. L. T. Meyer has assured me of their abundance in the 

 northern part of Lake County. Mr. C. E. Aiken tells me they were abundant in 

 that county in 1871. Mr. J. Grafton Parker and Mr. H. K. Coale have noted 

 them as common in that county. In 1886 Mr. R. B. Trouslot told me it was com- 

 mon in Porter County. Summer resident near Michigan City, Laporte County 

 (J. W. Byrkit). Laporte County: Abundant; breeds (Chas. Barber). Mr. 

 Ruthven Deane reports them abundant and apparently breeding at English Lake, 

 Starke County. Marshall County: Common (A. I. Mow). Dr. Vernon Gould, 

 of Rochester, Fulton County, informs me that upon the prairies and oi)en 

 marshes in the western part of that county the Bobolink is found quite common 

 in its favorite localities and has been for fifty years. In the eastern half, or tim- 

 bered section, it is not often seen. He does not think there has been any percepti- 

 ble change as to numbers since the country was settled. Mr. Victor H. Barnett 

 reports them present at Francisville, Pulaski County, June 11, 18, 19 and 20, 

 1896, and thinks they l)reed sparingly. In 1891, Hon. R. Wes. McBride, a close 

 observer, wrote me that the Bobolinks were entirely unknown in Elkhart County. 

 That he had not seen one there nor had any one else to his knowledge. In 1895, 

 Mr. Chancey Juday wrote that he saw a number near Miliersburg, that county, 

 the week ending June 22. In Kosciusko County, Mr. L. H. Haymond, informs 

 me they were first observed in 1872 or 1873. The next summer a few pnirs bred in a 

 swamp witiiin the city limits of Warsaw. They have increased in numbers yearly. 

 At Fountain Spring Park (Winona) many pairs now breed annually. I, my- 

 self, have for two seasons, found a great company in the meadow west of the 

 assembly ground in the latter part of June and early July. In 1894, a pair of 

 Bobolinks were discovered to have built their nest on ground often occupied for 

 shooting tournaments. The traps were so placed that the nest was between them 

 and the shooters. All the firing was over the nest. At first the birds were very 

 much frightened by the noise. The female left the nest at the beginning of the 

 shooting, returning when the first match was shot. She left again when the next 

 match began. After some time, however, she returned to her nest and remained 

 tliere until the close of the shooting. Hundreds of shots were fired over her, yet 

 she sat quietly on her nest through it all. Mr. J. E. Mow says they are common 

 and breed at Millwood in Kosciusko County. Mrs. Jane L. Hine, of Sedan, Indi- 

 ana, wrote me in 1892, that tlie first Bobolinks appeared near Kehdallville, Noble 

 County, in 1883. She saw them there the next year, June 4, 1884. In 1885 

 they ajipeared two and a half miles east of the DeKalb and Noble County line. In 

 1886, at Sedan, two miles farther east, she saw three males that spring. There was 

 more of them in 1887 and increased after that. In 1888 the people of a neighborhood 



