402 THE AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST 
Crow, Blue Jay, White-breasted Nuthatch, Red-headed Wood- 
pecker, Goldfinch, Downy Woodpecker, Song Sparrow, Chickadee, 
Hairy Woodpecker, Cardinal, Meadowlark, Bluebird, Robin, 
Killdeer, Red-winged Blackbird, Bronzed Grackle, Flicker, Field 
Sparrow, Cowbird, Kingfisher, Towhee, Phoebe, Mourning Dove, 
Vesper Sparrow, Brown Thrasher, Chipping Sparrow, Chimney 
Swift, Spotted Sandpiper, House Wren, Baltimore Oriole, Warbling 
Vireo, Yellow Warbler, Catbird, Kingbird, Bobolink, Screech Owl, 
Barn Swallow, Orchard Oriole, Crested Flycatcher, Indigo Bird, 
Wood Pewee, Red-eyed Vireo, Dickcissel, Lesser Yellowlegs, 
Greater Yellowlegs, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Alder Flycatcher, 
Cedarbird, Redstart, Maryland Yellowthroat, Nighthawk, Hum- 
mingbird, Canadian Warbler, Red-shouldered Hawk, Bank 
Swallow, Brown Creeper, Bobwhite, Grasshopper Sparrow, 
Acadian Flycatcher, Herring Gull, Blackburnian Warbler, Logger- 
head shrike. : 
A very curious record, made on June 13, was that of the 
Brown Creeper. There was no record for this species in May, 
the bird having departed on April 20. In 1914 there was also 
no May record, the date of departure having been April 26. These 
various dates of migration show that the Brown Creeper is not 
to be looked for even in May. Who can account for its reappearance 
in June? 
The most notable event in the writer’s experience in June 
of this year was his trip to the sand-dunes in northern Indiana. 
In company with Dr. Nieuwland and another priest, on June 22, 
I went to a station seven miles beyond Michigan City, named 
Mineral Springs. From here a walk of about a mile brought us 
into the region of the dunes. These are a formation of sandhills— 
some nearly a hundred feet high—with deep gullies at long 
intervals. Formed by the wind blowing the sand inward from the 
shore of Lake Michigan, these dunes extend back probably a mile 
from the water’s edge in several parallel ridges, covered mostly 
with pine trees. Looked at from the distance of a mile, the tops, 
of the highest hills show the sand among the trees. This is perhaps 
the wildest part of Indiana. We met no person, nor saw any 
house, in the dune region. It seemed inspiring to think of the 
long years during which this unique formation has been going 
on, man playing no part in it, but nature carrying out her God- 
appointed laws in utter unobstructiveness. 
