BIRDS OBSERVED AT RUM VILLAGE Qi, 
the most plentiful species in the wood. This was the first time we 
had seen the myrtle this autumn. They were most numerous in 
one place in the grove. With the myrtle warblers, we saw two 
palm warblers, many bluebirds, serveral chipping sparrows and 
goldfinches. This was the first time we had observed the palm 
warblers this month. As we advanced farther into the wood, 
myrtle warblers were still seen, but another species soon attracted 
our attention by its great abundance. This was the hermit thrush. 
Most of them were either on the ground or in low trees and brushes. 
Their rufus tails could be seen in the sunlight without using our 
field glasses. This was our first record of the hermit thrush this 
autumn. We saw no other thrushes, and this surprised us greatly. 
For this grove is filled with wood thrushes in spring, and we did 
not expect them to have migrated so early. 
With the hermit thrushes we found in great abundance robins 
and bluebirds, especially the former. There were growing in this 
part of the grove many elder-berry bushes, which probably had 
attracted the robins. Nowhere else in the vicinity of South Bend, 
had we recently found robins in any abundance. At most a few 
individuals were heard or seen. 
Gradually we left the robins and hermit thrushes behind us, and 
farther on we heard a flock of bronzed grackles clattering in the 
tree tops. Occasionally, too, we heard the more pleasing note of the 
cowbird. Here we saw the only sapsucker in our pathway. We had 
seen one on the first of the month, and these two records were all we 
made up to date. A single ovenbird was also found in this part of 
the wood, as usual walking quietly on the ground. 
We were now approaching the east side of the grove, where many 
of the fine trees had been felled, and the branches were piled up. 
In the brush we found white-throated sparrows, rather abundant, 
and also began to meet again myrtle Warblers, bluebirds and chip- 
ping sparrows. An occasional snatch of song was heard from the 
white-throats; from all the other species naught but call-notes. 
We passed out of the grove at 11 a. m. and started up the road 
to catch a Michigan Street car. To do so we walked more than a 
mile, part of the way on the Vandalia tracks. The only species we 
‘saw here were two vesper sparrows. While walking along we 
counted the species we had seen, and found the number to be 
twenty-four. These were: bluebird, crow, goldfinch, bronzed 
grackle, blue jay, white-breasted nuthatch, robin, downy wood- 
