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The Birds, Our Friends. By E. J. Chansler. 



Some Additions to the Indiana Bird List, with Other Notes. By A. W. 



Butler. 



The reports upon the migration of birds for the past year have not all been 

 received; consequently the notes which I had hoped to report at this time will 

 not all be given. What I have to say will be quite short. The facts, though few, 

 are interesting and of much importance to Indiana ornithology. These include 

 the addition of two species to the list of the birds of the State; also notes upon 

 other species which are of rare occurrence or in other ways worthy of attention at 

 this time. 



^anihocephaliis .vanthocephalus (Bonap.) Yellow-headed Blackbird. 



Reported by Mr. C. A. Tallman from Cook County, III. It was first seen 

 May 9, 1896, when two were noted; next observed May 16, and became common 

 the same day. He found them nesting in a swamp about seven miles west of 

 Morgan Park, and also at Mud Lake, on the Illinois and Indiana line. Their 

 breeding habits are very similar to those of the Red-winged Blackbird. 



Anviiodramus hensloirii (.4.ud.) Henslow's Sparrow. 



Not common in Cook County, 111. The first one the past spring was seen 

 April 19; next noted April 25, when it was as numerous as it became; breeds. 

 (C. A. Tallman). 



-Arenaria interpres (Linn.) Turnstone. 



May 23, 1896, Mr. Eliot Blackwelder and Mr. C. A. Tallman, of Chicago, 

 noted two Turnstones at Wolf Lake, in Indiana. They were in company with a 

 miscellaneous dock of small Sandpipers. They were again seen June 9. I am 

 informed upon the same authority that Mr. F. M. Woodruff has taken specimens 

 of this species in Cook County, 111. 



Dendroim discolor (YieiU.) Prairie Warbler. 



Mr. J. E. Beesley mounted a female that was taken at English Lake, Ind., 

 June 14, 1896. It is now in the collection of the State Museum in the State House, 

 Indianapolis. 



