1880. | PinDAR, Birds of Fulton County, Kentucky. 391 
were made at Hickman, on the Mississippi River. The other local- 
ities mentioned are situated as follows: Alexander Station (also 
known as Crutchfield and Slapout) is in the northwestern part of 
Fulton County on the Illinois Central Railroad. Woodland Mills 
is in Obion County, Tennessee, about a mile from the State line, 
on the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad. Reelfoot 
Lake lies between Obion and Lake Counties, Tennessee, a small 
portion of the lake extending into Fulton County. Number § 
Chute lies between Island Number § and Kentucky, ten miles west 
from Hickman. The country is well wooded in all portions with 
which I am familiar, some of the more important trees being ash, 
beech, black gum, butternut, cottonwood, cypress, elm, hackberry, 
hickory (several varieties), Kentucky coffee tree, locust, red and 
white oaks, pecan, persimmon, poplar (tulip), sassafras, sweet 
gum, and walnut. 
I have prepared two lists of Fulton County birds before this. 
One was published in the ‘Ornithologist and Odlogist’ for April 
and June, 1887, the other was read before the fifth meeting of the 
American Ornithologist’s Union in Boston, October, 1857. Both 
of these lists contained several errors, all of which, it is believed, 
are eliminated from the present one, which also comprises a num- 
ber of additional species. For much valuable help in the study of 
the avifauna of this region I am indebted to Mr. R. Ridgway of 
Washington, D. C., Mr.O. Widmann of St. Louis, Mo., Prof. 
B. C. Caldwell, formerly of Hickman, now of Glasgow, Mo., and 
also to those whose names appear later on in the list, to all of 
whom I take this opportunity of rendering my thanks. 
1. Podilymbus podiceps.—Common in winter. A few remain through 
the summer. 
2. Urinator imber. WaArR-LooN. WaALLoon.—Said to occur regularly 
every winter. I have never seen it. 
3. Larus argentatus smithsonianus.—Common winter visitant. 
4. Larus delawarensis.—Winter visitant. Not common. 
5. Larus atricilla—Summer would be the time to expect to see this 
bird, but the only one I have positively identified was seen January 8, 
1887. 
6. Larus franklinii.—Occasionally seen in winter. 
7. Gelochelidon nilotica.—Summer resident. Not common. 
8. Sterna forsteri.-Summer resident. The commonest of our ‘Sea 
Swallows.’ 
g. Sterna hirundo.—Rare summer resident. 
