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six miles east of Sedan were telling of their new bird, the Bobolink. Mr. McCord, 

 who has been much upon the Auburn and Fort Wayne road, saw his tirst Bobo- 

 link there in 1887. 



According to Hon. R. Wes. McBride, Bobolinks tirst appeared about Water- 

 loo, Dekalb County, about 1880. In 1891 he wrote me they were one of the most 

 common summer residents in Dekalb, Steuben and Lagrange counties, and in a 

 paper before this Academy (Proc. 1891, p. 107,) he reiterates his remarks in sub- 

 stance, and adds: "It is still very rare in Elkhart County, only a short distance 

 west, with the apparent conditions not materially different.'" In 1886 Mr. J. O. 

 Snyder informed me that pairs remained all summer at Waterloo. In 1887 he 

 said it was uncommon and bred. In 1888 he noted it as becoming more common 

 each year. In 1894 Mr. J. P. Feagler said, in speaking of Dekalb and Steuben 

 counties, the rate of increase is about ten per cent, a year. In 1889 Mr. C. A. 

 Stockbridge, of Ft. Wayne, wrote me they were found in Allen County all sum- 

 mer, and he thought they bred. In 1893 Mr. W. O. W^allace wrote me it was a 

 common summer resident at Wabash. It was first noticed there about 1887, when 

 he saw two males. From that time they have been increasing until they are now one 

 of the commonest meadow songsters. Dozens of persons — adults — asked him what 

 the new bird was. Upon their describing it he recognized their new acquaintance 

 as the Bobolink. Mr. D. C. Eidgley first noted it breeding in Wabash County about 

 1891. Since then Mr. Wallace has often caught young unable to fly, but has never 

 found their nests. (Birds of Wabash County, Proc. I. A. S. 189o, p. 1-53.) Mr. 

 F. E. Bell reports it as common and breeding at North Manchester. 



In 1892 Prof. E. E. Fish, Buffalo, New York, wrote me that several years ago 

 he traveled slowly through several of the northern counties of Indiana without 

 once seeing a Bobolink. He adds, "but they now sing in the meadows near Lo- 

 gausport, and doubtless they nest there, as they remain so late in the summer." 

 Prof. A. H. Douglass, of Logansport, has recently written me that he has observed 

 these birds for a number of years. Their numbers have increased steadily every 

 summer. They breed there now in almost every timothy meadow. He adds : 

 "It is a great joy to me during the latter half of May and the month of June to 

 drive into the country and see them so abundant where there were none a few- 

 years ago. In some meadows last year (1896) there were more Bobolinks than 

 Meadow Larks." They were first reported as migrants from Carroll County in 

 1884 by Prof. B. W. Evermann. Mr. Sidney T. Sterling says the first of these 

 birds he saw in that county was in 1891. That summer two pairs remained about 

 a wet place in a timothy meadow. As they remained so constantly near the same 

 place, he concluded they were nesting. They disappeared about harvest time, to 



