238 Eifrig, Soma Kink of the Chicago A l.vp'-ii 



While this species is not so rare in Cook County, even nesting in 

 tin 1 extensive Calumet marshes, this is the first record, so far as 



the writer is aware, for On Page County. 



What birds are able to go through occasionally, without suc- 

 cumbing, was illustrated by a Pectoral Sandpiper (Pisobia macu- 

 hita^ which came into my hands April 20, 1910. One leg above 



the tarsus must have been broken some time previously, but the 

 bones had crown together, with the foot and tarsus turned 

 around, so that the bird was walking- with out 1 foot directed for- 

 ward and the other backward. Chi the abdomen was a scab over 

 an old wound with a elet't in the center an eighth of an inch 

 deepl This must have been done by a shot or by flying against a 

 barbed wire fence. 



During the extremely hot summer oi 191] flocks oi northern 

 shore-birds were here early in July, frequenting the pastures 

 along the creek or around the sloughs. They thru were still in 

 their almost perfect nuptial plumage and thus unusually hand- 

 some specimens of Pectoral, Red-backed and Solitary Sand- 

 pipers, oi Greater and Lesser Yellow-legs, ami oi the Least and 

 Semipalmated Sandpipers were to be seen. It is surprising how 

 late the Greater Yellowlegs remain here on their northward 

 journey- — into the last week of May- — and how soon they are 

 back again, namely by the end o{ June ami beginning of July. 

 These are undoubtedly non-breeding birds, that Ao not go very far 

 north. 



On May 10. 1010. 1 saw a flock of about fifteen beautiful Golden 

 Plover {Charadrius dommicus dominions), also three on May 0. 

 1912. They are becoming rather rare in this region. 



The Bob-white {Col in us vinjinianus rirginianns) has become very 

 rare in this immediate vicinity, and of the Prairie Chicken {Tym- 

 panuchus americanus amertcemxts) there is but one small covey on a 

 farm nearby, where they are protected. 



When we come to the Friiujilliihr, however, the outlook brightens 

 for this section, although here too the rarity oi the Chipping Spar- 

 row militates against it. Redpolls and Tine Siskins are plentiful 

 some days in autumn, winter or spring, and even the northern Gros- 

 beaks put in an appearance from time to time. Hut it is for Long- 

 spurs that the region is a veritable paradise. On the exposed, 



