Beckham on tJic Birds of Bayou Sara. Louisiana. \Z^C) 



nanus* and //. s-uainsoni — are well known to he cominon sum- 

 nier residents. The occurrence of a representative of H. alicice 

 m the United States at all during its Ijreeding season is a matter 

 of surprise, especially when we recollect the boreal distrihution 

 of the typical form during that period, and readf that so far 

 towards the north as the Yukon and the Great Slave Lake it 

 occurs "only as a bird of passage to and from more northern 

 breeding grounds." Additional information respecting the distri- 

 bution of the new race will be awaited with great interest. 



SHORT NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF BAYOU SARA, 

 LOUISIANA. 



15V CMAIII.ES WICKI.IFFE BECKHAM. 



As the avian tauna of the lower Mississippi Valley is now 

 receiving some attention. ;{; it seems well thatlshoidd contribute 

 my mite of information to the general fund. 



Bayou Sara and the adjoining town of St. Francisville. in the 

 parish of West Feliciana, are situated on the east bank of the 

 JVlississippi River, 170 miles above New Orleans bv that stream 

 and about So miles in an air line northwest of it. It is 30 or 40 

 miles north of Baton Rouge, near which place Dr. Langdon made 

 his observations in Apiil. iSSi. The following notes were made 

 principally on and near •AVyoming," two miles from the river, 

 the plantation of Ex-Gov. R. C. Wicklifte, a place possessing 

 peculiarh' agreeable ornithological associations on account of its 

 former owner, Gen. Dawson, having entertained Audubon as his 

 guest for several months. It will be remembered that the type 

 specimen ot Buteo harlani was captured here. 



* See "The Coues Check List of North American Birds," p. 24. 



t Birds of North America, p. 12. 



\ Field Notes on Louisiana Birds. By Dr. F. W. Langdon. lournal of the Cincin- 

 nati Society of Natural History, July, 1881, pp. 145-155. A List of Birds from the 

 Lower Mississippi Valley, Observed During the Summer of 1881, tvith Brief Notes. 

 By O. P. Hay. Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, Vol. VH, pp. 89-94. 



