No. 8 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, 1913 31 
Fic. 31.—Detail view of “ Peanut” shells on dead stump, Key West, 
Florida. Photograph by Bartsch. 
BIRD STUDIES IN ILLINOIS 
Mr. Robert Ridgway, curator of the division of birds, U. S. 
National Museum, has been working on the completion of National 
Museum Bulletin No. 50, Birds of North and Middle America, and 
has done some exploration work in the field in connection with this 
work. 
Recently he made a trip to the Little Wabash River, about 16 miles 
southwest of Olney, [llinois, in order to ascertain what species of 
birds were wintering in the dense thickets of the bottom lands, and 
to obtain evidence as to the presence there of a decided element of 
the Austroriparian or Lower Austral fauna and flora. 
