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County. The plant is a representative of advanced autumn, 
often defying the night frosts until early October, and surpassed 
in durability only by Brachyactis angustus. 
Leeds, North. Dakota. 
OUR WINTER BIRDS. 
By BROTHER ALPHONSUS, C. S. C. 
A flock of Evening Grosbeaks, ten in number, appeared at 
Notre Dame, Ind., on November 30 and remained three days. 
This is the first record of this species in this locality of which the 
writer has any- knowledge. They came each day in the early 
part of the afternoon to a certain bex-elder to feed on the seeds 
of the tree. Like all northern birds, they showed no fear of any 
one—even of a number of boys who made considerable noise 
playing near the tree where the birds were feeding. On January1g, 
six more of this species were seen feeding in the same kind of 
tree and uttering a low note. 
An interesting sight during the first days of December was 
the presence at Notre Dame of a single Hell Diver on a lake nearly 
frozen over. The bird remained until the night before the last 
part of the lake froze. This species of waterfowl is probably the 
earliest to arrive in spring and the latest to depart in autumn. 
Mr. John Worden, cn a visit to the Rosewarn farm near 
Niles, Mich., saw on Dec. 26, two Cardinal Grosbeaks. The farmer 
told him that the birds had been seen there throughout the month. 
The writer has never seen this species in this locality during winter. 
DECEMBER. 
Birds seen’ every day except on the dates after their names: 
Rive lay a4. 7S, 0; LO, Mio, ie Crowe: 2. 34,3. TOM bor nse 
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White-breasted Nuthatch, 2, 8, 9, 10, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 24, 27, 28, 30 
Birds seen on thie dates after their names: 
Evening Grosbeak, 1, 2. Hell Diver, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 
Tree Sparrow, 8. Snowbird, 14, 17, 18. 
Screech Owl, 26. Snowflake, 27. 
Downy Woodpecker, 28. 
