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16th and 15th; Yellow Palm Warbler, identical; White-throated 
Sparrow, 21st and 24th; Black-throated Green Warbler, 24th 
and 19th; Magnolia Warbler, 25th and 19th; Hermit Thrush, 
30th and 28th. 
Six spring records of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo show that this 
species is a regular migrant, all the dates following within the last 
two weeks of May. The earliest date was the 16th, and the 
latest, the 30th. 
The Redstart is an exception to the regularity of most of the 
migrants in May. A glance at six of its Spring records will show 
the truth of this statement: May 12, 1909; May 4, 1910; April 
Ze igtr ayMay) 3, \TOL2 «Api, 20, 19%3; May 10, 1914. Here 
there are three different sets of records, which is remarkable. 
The total number of migrants seen this spring was 79. 
MARCH. 16 Brown Thrasher 
4 Sparrow Hawk 17 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 
5 Hairy Woodpecker 18 Pine Grosbeak 
5 Song Sparrow 18 Myrtle Warbler 
5 Snowflake departed 18 Purple Finch departed 
10 Meadowlark 20 Chickadee departed 
10 Killdeer 22 Barn Swallow 
11 Cardinal 23 Tree Sparrow departed 
11 Purple Finch 23 Golden-crowned Kinglet departed 
13 Bluebird i 25 Yellow Palm Warbler 
13 Robin 25 Black-throated Green Warbler 
14 Canada Geese 25 Spotted Sandpiper 
16 Herring Gull 25 Baltimore Oriole 
24 Red-winged Blackbird 26 Brown Creeper departed 
25 Sapsucker 26 House Wren 
27 Kingfisher 26 Sapsucker departed 
28 Golden-crowned Kinglet 26 Warbing Vireo 
30 Mourning Dove 26 Catbird 
31 Phoebe 26 Chimney Swift 
31 Cowbird 27 Yellow Warbler 
APRIL. 28 White-throated Sparrow 
28 Acadian Flycatcher 
28 Kingbird 
28 Orchard Oriole 
May. 
Gnatcatcher 
Savanna Sparrow 
Chestnut-sided Warbler 
Ovenbird 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet departed 
2 Vesper Sparrow 
7 Towhee 
7 Field Sparrow 
7 Fox Sparrow 
7 Loggerhead Shrike 
9 Hermit Thrush 
12 Flicker 
14 Wilson Snipe 
15 Chipping Sparrow 
ap PWN 
