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be seen no more until the following spring, when they returned to the same place. 

 In 1893 the field was put in wheat, and the birds were not seen any more. At 

 Lafayette it is rare, and I can not learn that it is a summer resident, or breeds. 

 (L. A. and C. D. Test, R. R. Moffitt). Mr. J. E. Beasley, Lebanon, says that the 

 first of this species he saw in Boone County was in 1869. There were three males. 

 They have been increasing since that time. While the greater part seen are mi- 

 grants, there are always a few pairs that breed. I myself have seen them during 

 the spring migration in Howard County, but do not know that they have been ob- 

 served to breed there. Mr. A. B. Ghere says they breed commonly in Clinton 

 County. In 1889 Mr. J. R. Slonaker reported them common at Terre Haute, and 

 added they had been noticed to breed there for the past three years only. Mr. A. 

 H. Kendrick reports them as breeding near Ellsworth, Vigo County, in 1896. In 

 1887 Dr. A. W. Brayton informed me that he had found them breeding upon the 

 grounds of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb within the city of Indianapolis. 

 In 1889 Mr. W. P. Hay reported them breeding at Irvington, adding, they had 

 been scarce until the last two years. Mr. Roy Hathaway informs me they breed 

 in .Jay County, near Red Key. In 1886 Mr. G. G. Williamson reported one from 

 Delaware County, June IJ, and added they bred there. In 1890 he notes it as not 

 common; breeds. In 1892 he informed me the Bobolink had surprised him. He 

 writes: "He has come and brought all his friends and relatives with him. He 

 has always been a scarce bird hereabouts before this. But this time he is actually 

 abundant. Every suitable meadow furnishes one or more, and their music boxes 

 are in the best of order." 



The first record I have from Wayne County is from Dr. Erastus Test, Purdue 

 University, Lafayette. He tells me he saw a number of Bobolinks there from 

 1883-(), and especially refers to them in the vicinity of Earlham College, near 

 Richmond. They were next reported from that county in 188S by Messrs. H. N. 

 McCoy, W. C. DeWitt and Fred. ^l. Smith, of Richmond. They noted them as 

 remaining as late as July 1st. I have reports from there almost every year since. 

 In 1891 I found it near the southern boundary of Wayne County. I called the 

 attention of some of the members of the Wayne County Horticultural Society to 

 this occurrence. As a result I received a report for that year from Mr. Walter S. 

 Ratliff. This was the first time he had observed them. There were only three. 

 They were seen about the edges of the same meadow every day until July 21st. 

 He says they bred. In 1892 they returned to the same farm. There were nine. 

 They paired and again nested in the meadows. Young weje noted a mile farther 

 north. July 20th they left. In 1893 these birds came again in larger numbers 



