344 EvERMANN, Birds of Carroll County, Indiana. [October 



June lo and 17 would be the best time to find the female build- 

 ing (it would be next to useless to search for the nests after they 

 are completed), while June 25 to July i should be early 

 enough to expect full sets of eggs. But opposed to this conclu- 

 sion are the early date (June 26) at which I found young on 

 wing near Winchendon in 1887 and the recoi"d * by Mr. Charles 

 H. Andros of a set often eggs taken by Mr. Cheney at Grand 

 Manan, New Brunswick, "on or about June i." It is possible 

 that the species rears two broods in a season but, on the whole, 

 I am inclined to believe that its time of nesting is irregular, 

 varying at different places or at the same place in different years. 



BIRDS OF CARROLL COUNTY, INDIANA. . 



BY BARTON W. EVERMANN. 



Carroll County lies in the northern central part of Indiana, 

 about one hundred miles south of Lake Michigan. The chief 

 river of the County is the Wabash, which flows southwest across 

 the northwest part of the County. The greater part of the 

 County lies to the east and southeast of the river, and is drained 

 into it by Rock, Deer, and Wild Cat Creeks. The Tippe- 

 canoe River flows for a few miles through the northwest corner 

 of the County, its direction being almost due south. 



All that portion of the County lying to the east and southeast 

 of the Wabash (embracing ten of the thirteen townships) was 

 originally very heavily timbered, and there yet remain many- 

 uncleared acres. The chief forest trees are beech, red and white 

 oak, elm, ash, poplar (tulip), sycamore, maple (hard and soft), 

 walnut (black and white), hickory, — in short the usual decidu- 

 ous trees of the ordinary forest of central Indiana. There are 

 practically no pines or other evergreens in the County, except a 

 very few along the Tippecanoe. The three townships lying on 

 the right bank of the Wabash differ materially from those on the 

 other side. Adams, the most eastern of the three, is inclined to 



* Ornithologist and Oologist, Vol. 12, p. 203. 



