CoUnua virginianus fiiftnluras. Bob-whttb. 



1803. January 9. Partredges, 



August 15. Partredge resumes their Winter language. 



1804, January 28. Partredges oall £1 

 February 11. Partrcdsj 



ISIS. January 17. Partredsj Partredge migrates southerly 



:\t commencement of winter, but yet abundanoe 

 remain with us. perhaps tun-thorn broods. 



1822. May l Partredge ( 



Ectopistes migratorius Passsnqeb Fun\ \ 



This bin.1 is reoorded in but three of the years covered by the Journal. 

 Whether like some other species it Beamed to the writer too common to 

 merit mention exeept when it occurred in unusual numbers, or whether the 

 records given constitute the only occasion when the birds occurred near 

 the garden, 1 cannot say. Wilson writing at tins very period states that, 

 M El t r\ spring :ts well as fall more or less of them are seen in the neighbor- 

 hood of Philadelphia, but it is only once in several years that they appear 

 in such formidable bodies, and this commonly when the snows are heavy 

 to the north, the winter here more than usually mild, and aeorns. &c . 

 abundant." 



Bartram's roeords are a^ follows: 



180S March 16. Clear warm day, Alder in flower. Large flights 

 of Wild Fidgions. 

 September 11. Wild Pidgeons arived from North Clear a dry. 

 wind southerly. Poke berries A; wild Crapes 

 ripe. 

 1804. January 7. Wild Pidgeons in the Forest feeding on Aoorn. 

 The day warm as summer, evening eloudy. 

 February 19. 1 argc Flights of Wild Pidgeons (Cciumba 

 migrc: a ria). Warm, pleasant, spring weather, 

 seeds vegetate in open ground. 

 Maroh I. Pidgeons flying northerly. Cloudy morning, 



began to snow about 11 o'clock. Every 

 appearance v\: feeling of winter. 

 Pidgeons in flocks. Rainy day cleared at evening. 

 Flights of Pidgeons. Cool, flying clouds from 



v w. 



Flocks of Pidgeons flying northerly Cloudy A 

 warm, wind S. River Schuylkill overflowing, 

 the rapid waters carry along Bridges, rafts, «$: 

 timber swooped from the shores. 

 1807. January 9. Wild Pidgeons thing in flocks dear & cool. 



February 10. k flight of Pidgeons passt. by Northerly. 

 Cloudy and thawy, evening tempestuous 

 with rain. 



