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On April 17, l!)()s, I s;iw a pair of Cardinals at the mouth of Sny 

 Magill Creek, l><>tli male and female were singing. This creek 

 is ;i small tributary of the Mississippi River, emptying into that 



stream six miles below McGregor. Until very recently, I had 



believed this to have been the first, identification of the species in 

 Clayton County. This credit, however, belongs to Mrs. Hatch, 

 who caughl a fleeting view of one in McGregor some time prior to 

 this date. In the last week of December, L908, ;i male Cardinal 

 appeared at the food table spread for birds in the yard of Mrs. M. 

 \ .Ionian of McGregor. It remained as a regular boarder for 

 upward of three months. Barring the brief glimpse of the ( lardinal 



previously mentioned, this bird was of a species never before seen 



in that place as is established by the testimony of Mrs. Jordan, 

 who had resided there for fifty years, ;in<l by that of several other 



old time residents. Similar testimony came from Blue River, and 

 Boscobel, Wisconsin, villages situated on the banks of the Wiscon- 

 sin [liver nearly due east from McGregor; in them for the first 

 time it is said that Cardinals appeared that winter, two spending 

 the cold months in the former place, and In Boscobel one was seen 

 m March of 1909. 



In the following winter the species again appeared in new fields. 

 On November 26, l!)()!>, a female Cardinal spent several hours in 



our yard in National, Iowa. This place has a prairie location, and 

 is on the watershed between the Mississippi and Turkey Rivers; 

 it is the only place outside of bottom lands or near streams from 

 which the species h;is been reported. Sixteen days later a male 



came to its former boarding place in McGregor, spending one 

 day there. On February L0, L910, feeding with the chickens in 

 the yard of Mr. Hurry Barnnin of St. Olaf, Iowa, was discovered 

 a female < 'animal, the next day a male joined her, the pair remain- 

 ing until spring weather came; four weeks or more. St. Olaf on a 

 tributary of the Turkey River lies directly west of the mouth of 

 Sny Magill Creek, distant ten miles in an air line. It is the most 

 westerly point in this region from which this species has been 

 report e< I. 



Ail records for t he succeeding two winters were made in McGregor 

 so far as has been learned. In November, L910 a pair appeared 

 ami were seen at intervals during the winter. Late the following 



