i68 Bird -Lore 



Wilson's Warblers, Red-breasted Nuthatch (?) and Olive-backed Thrush; Aug. 17, 

 Mourning Warbler; Aug. 20, Nashville Warbler ; Aug. 21, Philadelphia Vireo; Aug. 

 22, Black-throated Green Warbler; Aug. 23, Blackpoll Warbler; Aug. 25, Purple 

 Finch, Parula and Black-throated Blue Warblers and Water-Thrush; Aug. 26, Wil- 

 son's Willow and Gray-cheeked Thrushes; Aug. 30, Slate-colored Junco;* Sept. 2, 

 Swamp Sparrow; Sept. 3, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher; Sept. 4, Blue-winged Teal, Spar- 

 row-Hawk (latter recently added to summer resident list) and Palm Warbler; Sept. 6, 

 Horned Grebe ( ?); Sept. 7, American Coot and Osprey; Sept. 8, Le Conte's Sparrow 

 and Cape May Warbler; Sept. 9, Winter Wren and Ruby-crowned Kinglet;** Sept. 

 10, American Golden Plover; Sept. 11, Lincoln's Sparrow; Sept. 12, Rusty Blackbird;** 

 Sept. 13, White-throated Sparrow; Sept. 14, Sapsucker and Hermit Thrush; Sept. 15, 

 Brown Creeper;** Sept. 17, Sharp-shinned and Pigeon Hawks, Grinnell's (?) Water 

 Thrush; Sept. 18, Wilson's Snipe and Pine Siskin (?); Sept. 19, Golden-crowned King- 

 let; Sept. 20, Greater Yellow-legs; Sept. 22, Fox Sparrow; Sept. 24, Black-bellied Plo- 

 ver and Lapland Longspur (?);* Sept. 25, Mallard, Green-winged Teal and Myrtle 

 Warbler; Sept. 30, American Pipit. 



Latest dates of departure, for August and September, of transient and summer- resi- 

 dent species, from data collected near Glen Ellyn, Illinois, during the past eight 

 years : 



(For migrant species during February and March, ^nd April and May, see February 

 and April Nos. of Bird-Lore, pp. 27 and 66, respectively.) 



Aug. 13, Chipping Sparrow;!" Aug. 16, Yellow-breasted Chat;t Aug. 17, Mourn- 

 ing Warbler; Aug. 19, Least Sandpiper and Cerulean Warbler; Aug. 20, Blue-gray 

 Gnatcatcher; Aug. 27, Acadian Flycatcher; Aug. 30, Green Heron; Sept. i, Barn 

 Swallow, White-rumped Shrike, and Blue-winged Yellow Warbler; Sept. 3, Yellow- 

 bellied Flycatcher, Bank Swallow and Wilson's Thrush; Sept. 4, Baltimore Oriole; 

 Sept. 5, Black Tern and Dickcissel ; Sept. 6, Horned Grebe (?), Great Blue Heron, 

 Kingbird and Yellow Warbler; Sept. 7, Osprey; Sept. 8, Tree Swallow and Cape May 

 Warbler; Sept. 10, Cowbird and Warbling Vireo; Sept. 11, Bartramian Sandpiper; 

 Sept. 12, Sparrow Hawk; Sept. 13, Grasshopper Sparrow; Sept. 15, Olive-sided Fly- 

 catcher (?); Sept. 16, King Rail and Eave Swallow; Sept. 17, Grinnell's (?) Water 

 Thrush and Willow Thrush; Sept. 18, American Woodcock, Yellow-legs and Crested 

 Flycatcher; Sept. 19, Traill's Flycatcher; Sept. 20, Greater Yellow-legs, Scarlet Tanager 

 and Yellow-throated Vireo; Sept. 21, Wilson's Warbler; Sept. 22, Ruby-throated Hum- 

 mingbird, Indigo Bird, Blackburnian, Connecticut and Canadian Warblers and Wood 

 Thrush; Sept. 23, Wood Pewee and Martin (?) ; Sept. 24, Black-bellied Plover and Least 

 Flycatcher; Sept. 24, Pectoral and Spotted Sandpipers; Cedarbird * * and Golden- 

 winged Warbler; Sept. 26, Henslow's Sparrow and Chestnut-sided Warbler; Sept. 27, 

 Blue-winged Teal ; Rose-breasted Grosbeak; Philadelphia Vireo, Black-and-White and 

 Blackpoll Warblers; Sept. 28, Sharp-shinned Hawk; Sept. 29, Yellow-billed Cuckoo 

 and Chimney Swift; Sept. 30, Ovenbird. 



* Regular winter visitant. ** Irregular winter visitant. t Doubtless occurred later. 



OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER BIRD-LIFE AT GLEN ELLYN (NEAR CHICAGO), ILLINOIS 



By Benjamin T. Gault 



The opening days of October are perhaps easily characterized by the 

 marked disappearance of many of our strictly insectivorous birds. A few 

 may Hnger still, or until some time after the first fall frosts have set in, 

 yet it is equally apparent to us then that they fail to lend much character 



