32 EiDGWAY on Birds neiu to the Fauna of Illinois. 



The six species enumerated above reduce the number of "proba- 

 bilities " given by me (in 1874) in my " List of Birds ascertained to 

 occur in Illinois," from 43 to 28, or more than one third, the sub- 

 sequent additions including several species not included among the 

 species given as likely to occur, e. g. Dlchromanassa riifa, PUitalea 

 ojaja, and Felecanns fuscus. A thorough exploration of the swampy 

 country in the vicinity of Cairo would no doubt result in the addi- 

 tion of other Southern species, perhaps some hardly to be thought 

 of as occurring so far north. Of the 28 species still remaining in 

 the list of species " to be looked for," Helinaia swainsoni very prob- 

 ably occurs (see this Bulletin, Vol. Ill, p. 163). 



Mr. Worthen has favored me with interesting notes on several 

 other of the rarer or more interesting species of Illinois, which, with 

 his permission, I take pleasure in recording here : — 



Coturniculus lecontei. Leconte's Bunting. — "I have taken in 

 the last two years, on the prairies here, some twenty specimens ; have taken 

 them both in fall and spring, as well as during the summer, and am satis- 

 fied they breed here, though I have not been able to find their nests or 

 eggs. I have found them on low swampy prairies in the IMississippi bot- 

 toms, and on dry prairies on the blufis ; but generally in swampy or marshy 

 ground." 



Ammodromus caudacutus nelsoni. Nelson's Sharp-tailed 

 Finch. — "Took a beautiful adult male. May 8, 1879 ; flushed him from a 

 timothy meadow. The only one I have seen here." 



Elanoides forficatus. Swallow-tailed Kite. — "Saw one speci- 

 men flying hist summer, and one this year, but did not succeed in getting 

 either." 



Protonotaria citrea and Oporornia formosa. — The Prothonotary 

 and Kentucky Warblers are so numerous that Mr. W. takes " from fifty 

 to a hundred each season." 



Ibis alba. White Ibis. — "I had a full account in my lost field-notes 

 of one of these birds being taken in the southern part of the State." This 

 species was observed by the writer in the spring of 1878, at Mount Car- 

 mel, but no specimen obtained (see this Bulletin, Vol. Ill, p. 166). 



Larus franklini. Franklin's Rosy Gull. — " There is a beautiful 

 adult male of this species mounted in the State Museum at Springfield, 

 which I took in May, 1875. It was flying over a pond in the Mississippi 

 bottom, three miles below here." 



