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Vigo County: Your noted, March 17, and several, March 21 and 24. Nest 
with three fresh eggs taken near Terre Haute, May 20, 1888. 
Monroe County: Jannary 12, 1883, one heard. 
In Indiana this bird is known as Marsh robin, French robin, towhee, or 
joreé. 
153. CARDINALIS CARDINALIS CARDINALIS (Linneus). 
CARDINAL ;. REDBIRD ; KENTUCKY CARDINAL. (593) 
Permanent resident in all the counties. One of our most beautiful, inter- 
esting and best known birds. Common about old thickets, open woodlands 
with underbrush, along unkept fence rows. and about the borders of 
swamps. 
Carroll County: Usually rather common, especially along Wild Cat and 
Deer Creek, even coming into the villages wherever there is suitable cover. 
May 24, 1883, nest with eggs near Burlington. found by my nephew, Edwin 
C. Evermann. In the winter of 1883-4, they were exceedingly abundant in 
Tippecanoe Township, but much less so the following winter, though rather 
common Mareh 11-18. Less common now than formerly: during a week, 
June 25 to July 1. 1905, spent on my old home farm, only one was seen. 
Ava Evermann contributes the following records from Burlington: Decem- 
ber 1, 1907. one seen in cedar tree near house; 16th, one on fence covered 
With a sarsaparilla vine the berries of which it appeared to be eating. Jan- 
vary 1, 1908. “while walking in the woods along a deep ravine, I came sud- 
denly upon a bunch of song sparrows, juncos, and chewinks and while list- 
ening to their mingled calls, a series of distinct ‘tsips’ rang sharply above 
the other notes. After searching for a few minutes, a female Cardinal 
was discovered high in a tree across the ravine’: February 5, one seen near 
the house: March 1, the characteristic sharp ‘tsip’ heard and a male Card- 
inal discovered not far away. 
In IS77. T had a pair of cardinals as pets. I bought them from a man in 
Hamilton County, August 18, for $2.00 plus $2.50 for the cage! One day 
the male was let out of its cage and allowed the freedom of a room in the 
house. Happening to find a parlor match on the mantle, the bird picked it 
up in its strong bill. when it went off with a loud report which greatly 
frightened the bird. <A short time afterward, I held another match near 
him which he snapped with disastrous results: for the bird fell over dead, 
whether from fright or from inhaling the sulphur fumes, I do not know. 
Vigo County: <A fine male collected near Grant, April 14, 1888; another 
near Terre Haute, March 2, 1889. by A. J. Woolman, and a pair south of 
Terre Haute, November 16, following. A nest with one egg in a thorn tree 
southwest of Terre Haute, April 27, 1890, 
Monroe County: April 29, 1882,.a nest with two fresh eggs; January 12, 
1883, four or five seen. Probably most common in this county. <A fine male 
collected near Bloomington in June, 1888. 
154. ZAMELODIA LUDOVICIANA (Linnieus). ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK. (595) 
Rather common spring and fall migrant and rare summer resident, ar- 
riving from the south about the first of May. 
