THE BIRDS OF FLOYD COUNTY, IOWA. 189 
The Birds of Floyd County, Iowa. é 
BY CARROLL LANE FENTON. 
I.—INTRODUCTION. 
In 1916 I published, in the Wilson Bulletin (No. 96, pp. 130- 
138), a paper entitled “Preliminary List of the Birds of Floyd 
County, lowa.” This list extended through the Raptores, and 
included ninety species and subspecies. Several of the refer- 
ences, however, were either questionable or erroneous. A 
combination of circumstances made it impossible to complete 
the list in the Wilson Bulletin. Instead, the entire paper has 
been re-written, much material has been added, and all data 
carefully checked. The resulting paper is considerably larger, 
more detailed, and it is hoped, more reliable, than that ori- 
ginally published in the Wilson Bulletin. 
The sources of material and notes are varied. The prin- 
cipal one, of course, is my own field notebooks, made from 
1914 to 1922. These have been supplemented by the field 
notes of Mr. H. Clarke Brown, now of Geneva, Ill., but for- 
merly of Charles City, Ia. For several years Mr. Brown and 
I worked together, and his share in the list is larger than 
the acknowledgments indicate. Clement L. Webster, John R. 
Waller, and the late Mrs. Mary A. Dutton, all of Charles 
City, have furnished numerous notes, and have assisted in 
securing and verifying “early days” records. Through vari- 
ous other observers, brought together through the Bird Bureau 
of the Califor Naturalist Club, of Charles City, much data 
have been secured. Published material has been taken from 
the books and papers mentioned in the bibliography. 
A final source of information is the Miles collection of 
birds, made by a former resident of Charles City, and now 
in the Charles City High School. The collection is in bad 
repair, and many of the labels appear to have been lost since 
Dr. Bailey assisted me in examining it; nevertheless the notes 
taken at that time, and the remaining specimens, have proved 
of much value, 
