16 THE AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST 
records, the smallest; in April, the only difference was 2 records; 
in May, there was but one record fewer, in 1g1I. The Robin’s 
total number of records for four seasons was 321—the species not 
having been seen on 47 days. 
The Bronzed Grackle was least abundant in March, having 
73 records in four years. The cold winter of 1912 shows only 8 
records for March. The species was very regular in April and May, 
with a difference of only 4 records; and deducting the extra day 
in May, there would have been only 2 records fewer in April. 
The total for four springs was 313 records. 
The Song Sparrow, in March, had the same number of records 
as the Bronzed Grackle—73. There was great regularity in April 
and May, the species not having heen found only on one day 
in May in four years; and having been observed every day in 
April for the same time. In its total for four springs, the Song 
Sparrow exceeded the Bronzed Grackle by one record, having had 
314 records. ‘ 
Like the other spring migrants, the Meadowlark was least 
regular in March—having for four years a total of 60 records. 
In April and May, the ‘special was abundant, and showed but 
5 records as the difference between the totals for those months 
in four seasons. The total for four years was 292 records. 
The White-breasted Nuthatch presents a case of singular 
irregularity in all the spring months. I shall give the complete 
records for the four years that the reader may see at a glance 
in what way the species was distributed.—Records for March: 
3, 20, 0, 11;—total, 34.. April: 7, 17, 7,.17;—total, 42.) day. 
8, 13, 4, 9;—total, 34. Totals for each spring: 1910, 28; 1911, 50; 
1912, I¥; 1913, 37. Total for four seasons, 126 records. My 
records for the species in the spring of 1914 were still more irregular. 
In March, the Cowbird had but 13 records in four years. In 
April and May, the species was abundant, as the records for those 
months show—April having as a total 105, and May, 115 records. 
In the four seasons, the species totalled 229 records, falling con- 
siderably below the records of the Bronzed Grackle, but exceeding 
by nearly 50 records those of the Red-winged Blackbird. 
The Red-winged Blackbird, in four years, totalled 18 records 
for March, 72 for April, and 90 for May; making the total for the 
four seasons 180 records. Unless an observer frequents a marshy 
part of the country, he will not obtain satisfactory records for 
