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Bird - Lore 



tionally wet August and September, so that 

 the vegetation took on a fresh growth. Frost 

 held off until the night of October 1 2. Even 

 this was not a killing frost, so that at the end 

 of the period covered in this report there was 

 no tliinning of the foliage. 



The first marked influx of migrants occurred 

 about September i. Warblers of many spe- 

 cies were present during the interval between 

 this first wave and the beginning of the storm 

 period which culminated in the frost of Octo- 

 ber 12. On the 9th, they were especially 

 numerous. A few White-throats and White- 

 crowns and Hermit Thrushes arrived about 

 the 7th, but the bulk of these species came on 

 the front of the storm which began on the 

 loth and ended on the 12th. One of the 

 interesting features of this storm, which was 

 accompanied by high wind and some pellet- 

 snow, was that it seemed to drive the smaller 

 birds away from the lake-shore woods and 

 thickets well inland. Many of the Sparrows 

 and most of the Warblers, except the Myrtle, 

 and the Hermit Thrush were driven out of 

 the region entirely. But no new migrants 

 came in. Chimney Swifts survived the 

 storm, and were in their usual numbers after 

 it had passed. In the two preceding years 

 the Swifts have gone south by the middle of 

 September. This year most of the Swallows 

 had left the region by the middle of Septem- 

 ber, only stragglers remaining. 



On the whole the birds have reflected the 

 weather — remaining later than is their cus- 

 tom, very likely because they have found food 

 abundant in the dense foliage, and because 

 they have not felt the pinch of cold. But the 

 dense foliage has made bird-study difficult. — 

 Lynds Jones, Oberlin, Ohio. 



Chicago Region. — This region can report 

 ' three nesting records, even at this late date. 

 Mr. B. T. Gault writes, on August 21, "Saw 

 a female Cardinal feeding a young bird just 

 out of the nest. An old and apparently 

 abandoned nest just shortly afterward caught 

 my eye and thinking it might have been 

 occupied by the Cardinals, out of pure curios- 

 ity I inspected it, and in doing so flushed a 

 female Towhee from her two fresh eggs." 

 Dr. R. D. Paul reports a Mourning Dove's 

 nest with young at Palos Park on September 



II. Every year I hear of one or more late 

 Dove's nests, and for this reason believe that 

 the opening of the hunting season on these 

 birds should be extended until at least Sep- 

 tember 15; it now opens September i in 

 Illinois. 



Among the shore-birds the most important 

 record is that of the Buff-breasted Sandpiper. 

 Mr. G. P. Lewis observed two at the Lincoln 

 Park beach on August 23 and September 4, 5, 

 II, and 15; Mr. B. T. Gault also studied a 

 bird at close range on September 9; and the 

 writer took a female at Beach, Ills., on Octo- 

 ber 2. These appear to be the first records 

 for this state since 1898. 



Other shore-birds reported from Lincoln 

 Park by Messrs. Gault and Lewis are: Red- 

 backed Sandpiper, September 4; Knot, Sep- 

 tember II and 13; Golden Plover, September 

 13, 18, and October 2. Pectoral, Least, Semi- 

 palmated, and Spotted Sandpipers, Black- 

 bellied and Semipalmated Plover, Turn- 

 stones and Sanderlings were seen here during 

 the latter part of August and all through 

 September. Solitary Sandpipers were re- 

 ported twice from the Desplaines River and 

 Upland Plover from Palos Park. A flock of 

 Black-bellied Plover has been at Beach since 

 August 28, when two males in summer plum- 

 age were seen. On September 17, I crawled 

 behind a log and watched twelve of these 

 birds, three adults and the rest birds of the 

 year. They were last seen on October 9. 

 Besides the Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Sander- 

 lings were the only migrant shore-birds noted 

 here. Two Semipalmated Plover and a small 

 flock of Semipalmated Sandpipers stayed on 

 a mud flat behind a breakwater in Evanston 

 from August 21, to September 13. Other 

 birds were occasionally found with them, 

 some Spotted Sandpipers, once a Sanderling 

 and again a Green Heron in the grass nearby. 



The first Warblers were reported August 

 2 1 , from River Forest, nine species being seen, 

 including one Golden-winged Warbler. The 

 28th at Beach the writer found Baybreasts, 

 Blackpolls, and Redstarts common, with a 

 few Black and White and one Magnolia. 

 August 31, Tennessee, Blackburnian, and 

 Wilson's were added to the list from Glen 

 Ellyn. September 4, a Prairie Warbler was 

 seen at Willow Springs (G. P. Lewis). They 



