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Carroll County: June 12. 1882, nest with three fresh eggs in a small elm 
in the Maple swamp. Arrived from the south on May 3 in 1883, and by the 
19th, both sexes were common. On June 13, I found a nest with three parti- 
ally incubated eggs, 15 feet from the ground, in a beech tree in Stockton’: 
woods near Burlington. On May 21. a nest with five fresh eggs was foun 
about eight feet from ground in a small elm tree in the Maple swamp near 
Lexington. Noted May 6, 1SS4. and May 4 and 6, 1885. 
Vigo County: May 3 and 5, 1888: May 12. a male collected on Honey 
Creek. 
Monroe County: Usually a common summer resident, but not many seen 
in 1885 or 1886. 
212. ANTHUS RUBESCENS (Tunstall). prpeit. (697) 
Spring and fall migrant; not very common: goes north early in the 
spring and may be seen along the streams even before all the snow has gone. 
One of my earliest and most pleasant recollections of this interesting 
little bird is of a walk one afternoon, March 19, 1879, along the banks of 
Deer Creek above Camden. Snow still covered the ground everywhere 
except in a few small areas here and there and along the immediate shores 
of the creek. Just east of the railroad was a narrow strip of naked ground 
on the north bank of the stream and there I came suddenly upon a flock of 
about 20 Pipits feeding near the water’s edge. They were not easily fright- 
ened and permitted me to approach within a few yards of them, thus giving 
a good opportunity to observe them closely. They were feeding busily and 
seemed to find their food chiefly close to the water. After they had appar- 
ently exhausted the supply at that place they flew, singly or in twos or 
threes, to a similar place farther down the creek. 
In Vigo County I have recorded the Pipit on April 12, 15, and 15 to 25, 
1SSS8. It doubtless occurs in Monroe County, but I have no record. 
213. MIMUS POLYGLOTTOS POLYGLOTTOS (Linnzeus). MOCKINGBIRD. (703) 
A very rare summer resident. We have seen it in Vigo County only three 
times ; twice south of Terre Haute near Honey Creek, and once just south 
of the blast furnace about an osage orange hedge. 
In Monroe County. we have seen it but once, on April 29, 1882, a fine 
male in full song in the cemetery just west of Bloomington. Charles H. 
Bollman had seen it previously near Bloomington. A month later—May 29— 
while on a geological and natural history tramp to Wyandotte Cave, we saw 
one in Orange County about 35 miles south of Bloomington. It has never 
been observed in Carroll County. 
214. DUMETELLA CAROLINENSIS (Linnieus). CATBIRD. (704) 
Perhaps our most familiar and best known summer resident among our 
songbirds; common about the gardens, orchards, fields and open woods 
wherever there are thickets or briar patches. Arrives from the south 
April 20 to May first. Nests with full sets of eggs by May 15 or 20. 
Carroll County: July 14, 1882, nest with three fresh eggs. May 3, 1883, 
first noticed this morning, rather common; May 21, nests with two and four 
eggs near the Maple swamp: several others seen. After this date the species 
