26 IsELY, Birds of Sedgwick Co., Kansas. [jan. 



Professor Larrabee, head of the department of biology at Fair- 

 mount College, has lived in Wichita since September, 1909, and has 

 kept complete notes on bird migrations since that time. Dr. 

 Mathews has observed birds in Sedgwick County for 25 years. 

 The late Dr. F. H. Snow of the University of Kansas has credited 

 him with three species in his 'Catalogue of the Birds of Kansas.' 

 Mr. Sullivan, the local weather forcaster, is president of the Kansas 

 Audubon Society. He has kept very complete notes on bird 

 migrations since 1905. Mr. Smyth is president of the Wichita 

 Sportsmen's Club and has in his keeping the club records in which 

 all the ducks shot on its reserve since 1889 are noted. To these 

 gentlemen I am greatly indebted for the assistance they have 

 given me. 



The center of the field of my observations has been Fairmount 

 Hill and Fairmount College campus. Fairmount Hill is a suburb 

 of Wichita, northeast of the main part of the city, and connected 

 with it only by a few scattering houses. Trees, mostly elms and 

 maples, are planted along the streets and on the lawns, and there 

 are a few small orchards. There is little shrubbery on the Hill 

 and it is not as thickly settled as the city proper. On the college 

 campus is a grove of maples, elms and ash trees and the so-called 

 cedar {Juniperus mrginianus) and a clump of cottonwoods. For 

 the most part the trees are still small. 



South of Fairmount Hill is a cemetery covering about 100 acres, 

 planted with a mixed grove of maple, elm, coffee bean, red-bud, 

 cedar and spruce trees. The evergreen and deciduous trees are 

 evenly divided. In the east part of the cemetery is a pond cover- 

 ing several acres. About half of it is very shallow. Its banks are 

 fringed with willows, sedges and swamp grasses. 



East and north of Fairmount Hill is for the most part prairie 

 land. A^few osage oranges check these meadows. About three 

 fourths of a mile east of Fairmount Hill is a shallow pond, known 

 as the Reed Pond, whose borders are overgrown with cat-tails, 

 bulrushes, willows and swamp grasses. Leading from this pond 

 in a southerly direction is a slough which in the rainy season forms 

 a chain of little ponds. About a mile northeast of Fairmount 

 College is McGuinnis's Pond, which covers several acres. Lead- 

 ing from this pond in a northerly direction is a slough which also 



