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This was on April 27; the next day I found an old nest — probably of 

 the same pair, since I saw no others — in an abandoned cabin near the 

 cave. 



34. Contopus virens. Wood Pewee. — Common. 



35. Empidonax flaviventris. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. — I took 

 one May 9, from a flock of migrant warblers. 



36. Empidonax virescens. Green-crested Flycatcher. — Com- 

 mon; I noticed it first April 23, and found it common about May 3. 



[Empidonax traillii. Traill's Flycatcher. — On April 26, and on one 

 or two other dates, I thought I saw this flycatcher; but each time I 

 failed of positive identification.] 



37. Empidonax minimus. Least Flycatcher. — I took one May 

 10. It was quite silent, but active, making short excursions from a 

 sparse thicket of sumac and blackberry, and always perching in a scru- 

 pulously erect position. 



38. Cyanocitta cristata. Blue Jay. — Fairly common; but the 

 small oaks of the hills tempt it less than the larger trees about the town. 

 I found it common in Iuka. 



39. Corvus brachyrhynchos. American Crow. — Common. 



40. Dolichonyx oryzivorus. Bobolink. — This bird I observed three 

 times; on April 30 I saw a flock of about twenty males in an open pasture 

 near Iuka; the next day another flock was reported from a point near 

 the river; and a single female flew over on May 6. 



41. Agelaius phoeniceus. Red-winged Blackbird. — A very local 

 breeder in low fields and marshy ponds, of which situations there are not 

 sufficient to make the bird abundant. 



42. Sturnella magna argutula. Southern Meadowlark. — Not at 

 all common. 



43. Icterus spurius. Orchard Oriole. — A fairly common breeder. 

 I saw several at Grand Junction, Tennessee, — about a hundred miles 

 northwest of Iuka, — on April 16; but the species did not reach this 

 valley until April 23, becoming common about the same time. 



44. Icterus galbula. Baltimore Oriole. — I saw this bird also at 

 Grand Junction on April 16, but saw none here until April 24, and none 

 after April 29. It seems unwise to base conclusions on a month's record, 

 but the natural deduction would be, that this valley is a sort of pocket 

 and receives by degrees the overflow from the Mississippi Valley migra- 

 tion stream; though it will be seen from the notes to follow, on the 

 warblers, that this region lies — for some species at least — in a line of 

 migration not originating in the Mississippi Delta. The same theory will 

 not apply to all the species mentioned here, but I offer the above as an 

 explanation of an apparently paradoxical situation. 



45. Quiscalus quiscula seneus Bronzed Grackle. — Breeds com- 

 monly in a low wooded park in Iuka; but I saw it only once near the river, 

 on April 28. 



46. Carpodacus purpureus. Purple Finch. — I saw many females 



