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saplings and a nearby tidal marsh. Both birds were taken and proved to be 

 females of the year. One was in strong molt, very pale on head and but 

 little yellow on under parts; the other had molt nearly completed and 

 showed considerable yellow. 



Piranga erhthromelas. Scarlet Tanager. — An adult male was 

 taken October 25, showing a few flecks of red on breast, neck and belly and 

 with a well defined line of the same from lower neck along each side to the 

 rump. I have no previous record for the bird here. 



Dendroica castanea. Bay-breasted Warbler. — Several were noted 

 October 25, in a mixed grove of oaks, pines and sweet gums; the birds seem- 

 ingly affecting the deciduous trees. If the species occurs here regularly it 

 has been overlooked heretofore. 



On July 30, 1919, the following species were noted as having arrived 

 along shore: 



Macrorhamphus griseus griseus. Dowitcher. — Four birds seen. 



Pisobia minutilla. Least Sandpiper. — About thirty birds. There 

 may have been a few Semipalmated Sandpipers present but none identified 

 positively. 



Arenaria interpres morinella. Ruddy Turnstone. — A single bird 

 seen. On August 11 these were seen in the same locality: Dowitcher, 10; 

 Least and Semipalmated Sandpipers about 50 each; Ruddy Turnstone, 15. 



On August 15-16 further additions were the following: 



Pelidna alpina sakhalina. Red-backed Sandpiper. — Five or six 

 birds. 



Totanus flavipes. Yellow-legs, five. 



Squatarola squatarola. Black-bellied Plover. — Thirteen birds 

 seen of which five were in adult summer plumage. 



.ffigialitis semipalmata. Semipalmated Plover. — Four. — John 

 Williams, St. Marks, Florida. 



Bird Notes on the Wisconsin River. — The following notes were made 

 during a canoe trip down the Wisconsin River from Kilbourn to Prairie 

 du Chien, May 30, to June 4, 1919. 



Centurus carolinus. Red-bellied Woodpecker. — A fine male was 

 seen about fourteen miles above Portage. Not noted again until the 

 Spring Green bridge was passed; then fairly common along the remainder 

 of the river. 



Petrochelidon lunifrons lunifrons. Cliff Swallow. — A colony 

 of twenty nests was found on a cliff on the left bank about ten miles above 

 Merrimac; all those examined contained eggs. The structure was inter- 

 esting in that in every case advantage was taken of cavities existing in the 

 rock for the body of the nest, only the characteristic tubular entrance 

 being made of mud. 



Ardea herodias herodias. Great Blue Heron. — Above Merrimac 

 a heronry of fourteen nests was found in a clump of trees that had been 

 killed by the formation of Lake Wisconsin. 



