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in 1836. * * * B. W. Evermann learned from the late Louis Boll- 

 mann that they were there in 1831. * * * W. B. Seward of Bloom- 

 ington said that these birds were well known to him from 1840-1850 

 and were in many places common" (A. W. Butler in "The Auk," Vol. 

 IX, pp. 49-56). "Mr. W. B. Seward informs me of obtaining some 

 live, he thinks, young Paroquets from a farmer's boy in Owen 

 County (adjoining Monroe) in 1845. His impression is they were taken 

 from the inside of a hollow tree, on the borders of White River. This 

 is the farthest north we have any account of their nesting" (Butler, 

 Birds of Indiana, 1897). In Brown County it was formerly abundant 

 along Bean Blossom Creek (E. M. K.). 



8. [392] Campephilus principalis CLinn.). Ivory-billed Woodpecker. 

 "Formerly common, now rare" (B. W. K '87). Recorded by C. H. 



it was formerly found in Monroe County" (Butler). 



9. [486] Cofvus cora.c sitnudus (Vfag\.). American Raven. 



"Formerly common, now rare" (B. W. K '87). Recorded by C. H. 

 Bollmann ('86) along with the Prairie Hen and Parakeet as one of the 

 birds which had formerly been foiind in the county, but which was 

 then extinct. 



ADDENDA. 



30.5. [212.] Ballns virginiamis (Linn.). Virginia Rail. 



Uncommon migrant. Several were seen and one killed with a club in a 

 yard in town. April 22, 1904. 



