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VOL. VIII. 



BOSTON, MAY, 1883. 



No. 5. 



Mississippi Valley Migration. 



New Stations. 

 No. 2, Florida Royalieuw, P. S. Rislet. 

 " 4'2, Illinois, (iriggsville, T. W. Parker. 



No. 30 reports one Pine Goldfinch, 1-18 : 

 two pairs of Golden-crowned Kinglets, 

 1-6; one Brown Creeper, 1-6 ; a flock of 

 30-36 Redpoll Linnets, 2-7: a flock of 

 tliovisands of Lapland Longspurs, 1-6 ; 

 one Swamp Sparrow, 1-29; four Pnrple 

 Grackles, 1-18; and a few Herring Gnlls 

 on the Miss. River at the southern part of 

 the city, where the strong current prevent- 

 ed the forming of ice. 



No. 60 has seen this Winter, Quail, Black- 

 backed Three-toed Woodpecker, Red-poll 

 Linnet, Pine Grosbeak, Bohemian Wax- 

 wing ; 2-7 a Canada Jay and seven White- 

 winged Crossbills were sent him from 

 eighty miles north of his station : and on 

 2-26 saw a single female White-winged 

 Crossbill. 



No. 43 reports that contrary to all Itor- 

 mer custom the Blackbirds of the three 

 kinds, Red-winged, Cowbird and Purple 

 Grackle, together with Mourning Doves, 

 have stayed all Winter in the timber ; 2- 

 6 saw four compound flocks of Blackbirds. 

 He explains their presence by supposing 

 they had read Vennor & Tice and had 

 seen " We are going to have an open Win- 

 ter." Poor deluded birds ! 2-8, saw six 

 Crows; and 2-10 a Red-headed Wood- 

 pecker : 1-10, is reasonably certain he saw 

 a Swallow-tailed Kite flying swiftly toward 

 the South. 



No. 47 has seen during the Winter, Ce- 

 dar Birds, several flocks ; Short-eared Owls 

 quite numerous ; Barn Owl (?) one ; Amer- 



ican Goldfinch, several small flocks ; Crows 

 seen every week; Bohemian Waxwings, 

 one flock of fifteen ; Pine Grosbeaks, 

 three ; Goshawks, two : and Snowy Owls, 

 six. 



No. 45 has also seen the Snowy Owl 

 during Jan. In latter part of Jan. saw a 

 flock of Sparrows, and from their note took 

 them to be the White-crowned Sparrow. 

 2-25 a single Crow ; 2-27, Horned Larks, 

 six ; have never before seen them here un- 

 less the ground was partially bare. These 

 were in the main street of town. 



No. 35 says : Yellow-rumped Wai'blers 

 are Wintering here in large numbers. 



No. 37 has had the good fortune to find, 

 1-19, the Golden-winged Woodpecker and 

 the Red-bellied Woodpecker ; also the 

 Tufted Titmouse, Brown Creeper and Car 

 dinal Redbird. 2-15 he saw Cedar Wax 

 wing and Purple Finch. 1-19 an English 

 Sparrow was very busy in carrying straws 

 to the top of a window, second story and 

 east side of the building. 



No. 44 reports Crows, Bohemian Wax- 

 wings, and of Owls the Great-horned, 

 Bari'ed, Screech and Short-eared. 



No. 57 : The last week of Dec. a flock 

 of Prairie Chickens of at least 200 and 

 possibly 300 were seen hovering around a 

 straw-stack three miles from town. The 

 weather was intensely cold. There were 

 a few gulleys full of low brush and scrub 

 oaks not far distant from which they came 

 and into which they flew to roost. The 

 balance of the Winter there have been 

 seen very few. Is Jack Frost to blame 

 for this? Many Quail have frozen in the 



