Notes from Field and- Study 
Montana is to be included, though the 
number that reaches this section of coun- 
try is apparently small. 
In the summer of 1906, I saw them for 
the first time in this vicinity. A small 
flock spent the summer in a meadow near 
my home, and I saw the birds and heard 
their song frequently. Again in 1907 and 
1908, a small number frequented the same 
meadow. 
Last summer (1909), the size of the 
flock was apparently much reduced, and I 
did not see any of the birds, though 
several times I heard the familiar Bobo- 
lincan, wadolincan, winterseeble, see, see, 
see! Assuming that migratory birds usu- 
ally return to the locality where their life 
began, some casualty had doubtless over- 
taken some members of the flock. Per- 
haps they had succumbed to the hard- 
ships of the long journey to and from their 
winter home in South America; or, per- 
haps, in the guise of Rice-birds or Butter- 
birds, they had figured on the table of 
some Southern epicure. 
My home is in the Gallatin valley, in 
the southern part of the state of Montana, 
east of the main range of the Rockies. But 
the birds have also been recorded on the 
west side of the mountains, near Flathead 
Lake by the ornithologist of the Univer- 
sity of Montana. 
If all Bobolinks travel by the Florida 
route in migrating to and from the United 
States, these far western pilots of the 
air have to cross the Rocky Mountains 
twice each year.—NrELSoN LUNDWALL, 
Bozemon, Montana. 
Lunch-counter Notes 
One of the most interesting features of 
keeping a well-supplied lunch-counter 
for my birds is seeing, some day, a new 
bird, perhaps an entire stranger. One pair 
of Tufted Titmice came together all one 
winter. Their regular range is south of us. 
Occasionally a Cardinal will be seen, 
and once in a while will come to the win- 
dow. In February, last year, a flock of 
Redpolls came and visited for some weeks. 
Sometimes a Red-breasted Nuthatch will 
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stay for the winter. The Red-bellied 
Woodpecker also favors us some years. 
A flock of Purple Finches is staying here 
this winter, apparently because they 
appreciate our efforts in their behalf. 
They began coming one or two at a time, 
now there will be four or five at the counter 
and as many more waiting and flying 
about. There are now three Bronzed 
Grackles that come (since January 11), and 
shell seeds, and eat cracked corn, as 
happy and contented as if they did not 
regret not going South this winter. 
This has been a cold winter,—the 
ground covered with snow from eight 
to twenty inches in depth,—and the birds 
have been more numerous than usual at 
my counter. 
My regular winter birds are the Hairy 
and Downy Woodpeckers, White-breasted 
Nuthatches, Chickadees, Juncos, with 
Blue Jays and English Sparrows under 
protest. In the spring and summer, Robins, 
Catbirds. Wrens, Vireos, Orioles, Rose- 
breasted Grosbeaks, as also some of the 
winter birds, with their young.—NETTIE 
I. FarrBankS, Mt. Vernon, Linn Co., Iowa. 
Pied-billed Grebe Nesting in 
Connecticut 
On a pond close to “Bald Hill’ in 
Wilton township, Connecticut, on July 
21, 1909, I saw at least five Pied-billed 
Grebes, all of which appeared to be full- 
grown. One of them was feeding four 
young Grebes, that did not look over five 
or six inches long, and must have been 
hatched at the pond. On the same day, I 
saw a female Wood Duck, followed by one 
downy young, swim from the edge of the 
pond out into a partly submerged clump 
of bushes and trees. There was consider- 
able commotion in these bushes, and, 
among the other notes, was a distinct 
quacking. At the same pond, on August 7, 
I saw a half-grown Duck, which I believe 
was a Black Duck, swim out to the bushes, 
and heard more quacking. (I have added 
this rather indefinite note on the Black 
Duck, not as a record, but as a suggestion 
as to where the Black Duck could prob- 
