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September 28, 1912. 



9 to 10 a. m. — Crows cawing. Jays calling. Call-note of Song 

 Sparrow. Notes of Meadowlark and Grackle. A few Swifts seen. 

 Call-note of Goldfinch; note of young birds. A White-breasted 

 Nuthatch seen. Note of Downy Woodpecker. Golden-crowned 

 Kinglet arrived — 3 days ealrier than last autumn. The Snowbird 

 arrived — 12 days later than last fall. 



3:45 to 4:30 p. m. — Saw some Crows. Jays calling. Call-note 

 of Song Sparrow. Note of Meadowlark. Call of Robin. 



September 29, 1912. 



II to 1 1 :45 a. m. — Jays calling. Saw one Robin Feeble notes 

 of a Song Sparrow. Note of Downy Woodpecker; saw the bird 

 on a telephone pole. A Goldfinch in autumn plumage. 



3:30 to 5 p. m. — Caw of Crow. Call of Bluebird. Song of 

 Meadowlark. A flock of Vesper Sparrows — first seen since Aug. 16. 

 Two flocks of Cowbirds passed at 4:30. A Phoebe perched on the 

 back of a bench. Call-note of White-throated Sparrow. A Snowbird 

 in a spruce tree. 



September 30, 1912. 



9 to 9:45 a. m. — Few notes of Song Sparrow. A Phoebe in a 

 young walnut tree. In same kind of trees nearby saw the first 

 two Myrtle Warblers, which were driven away by the Phoebe. A 

 little farther on I met many of these warblers. Last autumn the 

 Myrtle Warbler arrived Oct. 11. 



3:30 to 4:30. — A flock of Goldfinches in an osage hedge. A 

 Red- winged Blackbird flew overhead — first seen since Aug. 12. 

 Call of Song Sparrow — saw the bird in some brush. 



A Correction. 



There seems to be a rather general tendency on the part of 

 very recent phytographers to decapitalize proper names of persons 

 used as specific terminations of plant names. Presumably this 

 error arose from a misinterpretation of §4, Art. 26, Rec. X. of 

 the Vienna Code. The rule says that "specific names begin with 

 a small letter except those that are taken from names of persons 

 (substantives or adjectives). 



Formerly it was the custom though an unwarranted one, 



