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BIRDS OF ILLINOIS. 



The date of flowering of additional species, in 1876, was noted by 

 Dr. Schneck, as follows : 



For purpose of comparison, I give below the earliest and latest 

 recorded dates of arrival for a number of species at Mt. Carmel, 

 Illinois ; Wheatland, Indiana ; St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, 

 D. C., localities in nearly the same latitude, i'or the latter, I am 

 indebted to Mr. H. W. Henshaw and Mr. Wm. Palmer, of Wash- 

 ington, who have kindly given me their records; the data for St. 

 Louis, I have compiled from Mr. Otto Widman's "General Notes 

 and Weather Eeport from St. Louis," published in Bulletin No. 1 

 of the Eidgway Ornithological Club, of Chicago, 1 which abound 

 with valuable data pertaining to the subject of bird-migration in 

 the Mississippi Valley. 



* Fruit ripe July 30. t Fruit ripe July 10. t Fruit ripe June 10. Fruit ripe July 1. 



1 Cook, W. W., and Widman, Otto. Bird Migration ! in the I Mississippi Valley. | 



I By | W. W. Cook and Otto Widmann. I | Read before the I Ridgway Ornithological 



Club. | November 8, 1883. | | Published in the "American Field" | Vol. XX, No. 22. to 



Vol. XXI. No. 3. | Published in pamphlet form with the following title on cover: The I 



Ridgway Ornithological Club, I of I Chicago, Illinois, U. 8. A. I | Bulletin No. 1. | 



Bird Migration in the Mississippi Valley | By | W. W. Cooke and Otto Widmann | | 



Published by I The American Feild, | December, 1883. 8 vo., pp. 37. the contents as fol- 

 lows: "Part I. Introduction. | | (W. W. Cooke.)" Pp. 3, 4. "Part II. | | Gen- 

 eral Notes and Weather Report from St. Louis, | Mo., beginning with January 1, 1883. | 



I 0. Widmann." | Pp. 5-13. "Part III. I | General Notes on Birds and Weather 



at Jefferson. I Wisconsin, in the Spring of 1883. | | W. W. Cooke." Pp. 14-18. "Part 



IV. | | Notes on each species of Bird observed at St. Louis, | Missouri, and Jeffer- 

 son, Wisconsin, during the I Spring Migralon of 1883. | 1 Pp. 19-37. 



