The Season 



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Ducks and Geese have appeared, and 

 indications are that their numbers will be as 

 satisfactorily large during the coming winter 

 as they have been for two or three years 

 past, with the possibility of even further 

 increase in numbers. — Harry C. Ober- 

 HOLSER, Biological Survey, Washington, D. C. 



Oberlin (Ohio) Region. — The weather 

 has continued mild, with no snow at any 

 time of sufi&cient depth or duration to have 

 any effect on the birds. A considerable 

 company of Chimney Swifts was present on 

 October 15, and a few were seen up to the 

 i8th, when a storm of three days' duration 

 began. None were seen after the storm. 

 An interesting thing about this company of 

 Swifts was that about the first of October 

 they left the chimneys that they had been 

 using for roosting-places and repaired to the 

 cemetery, where they seemed to be roosting 

 at night in some Scotch pine trees. Certainly 

 there was no chimney that they could have 

 used there. The first week in November, 

 White-winged Crossbills and a single Pine 

 Grosbeak came and remained for several 

 days. Never before have these two species 

 been seen in this region, except in unusually 

 cold and snowy winters. What drove them 

 South? By November 20 the birds had 

 settled down to winter conditions, and there 

 has been nothing out of the normal to report 

 since. There is an occasional Robin and 

 Bronzed Grackle, and, of course, Ducks 

 are still to be found in the vicinity of Lake 

 Erie. — Lynds Jones, Oberlin, Ohio. 



Chicago Region. — The recent period has 

 been marked by much stormy weather, snow, 

 and rain, but with very few days below 

 freezing. The last of the migrants left early 

 in November and a number of species from 

 the North have arrived. 



The last Warblers reported were a Ten- 

 nessee and a Nashville on October 12, and 

 a Black-throated Green on the 20th in 

 Jackson Park; a Myrtle on the 15th and a 

 Palm on the i6th at Waukegan, and an 

 Ovenbird at Austin on the 23d. Sanderlings 

 and Red-backed Sandpipers stayed until 

 November 2, and Wilson's Snipe were re- 

 ported from the Dunes the gth, and from 



Highwood the nth. A Phoebe was seen in 

 Jackson Park October 20. The first week 

 in November saw the last of the Sparrows 

 on their way South. 



Wm. I. Lyons, of Waukegan, took an 

 immature Harris' Sparrow in a trap October 

 12, which was banded and released. It 

 remained about his yard until the 30th and 

 during that time was taken in traps thirty- 

 two different times. 



Snow Buntings first appeared on October 

 20 and again on the 23d and the 30th; 

 Pine Siskins, October 21 and Redpolls, 

 November 13. A Pine Grosbeak was seen 

 by Stephen S. Gregory in his yard "in the 

 city November 11. He was able to watch 

 it closely for about twenty minutes before 

 it flew away. A flock of seven was reported 

 from Lake Forest, November 23, by Jesse 

 L. Smith. P. B. Cofirn saw a small flock of 

 White- winged Crossbills at Dune Park, Ind., 

 on October 30. It was in this same place 

 where the last were seen two years ago. A 

 small flock of Bohemian Waxwings were 

 found at Beach, Ills., on December 4 by the 

 writer. A pair were first seen and later the 

 flock which were very restless. In 19 19 

 on the same day, it was estimated by the 

 writer that about 1,500 passed there during 

 a flight of these birds. 



H. L. Stoddard, of the Milwaukee 

 Museum, spent some time in the Dunes, in 

 Indiana, between November 10 and 20, and 

 despite the very disagreeable weather was 

 able to report about fifty species. The 

 most noteworthy was a flock of about 200 

 Evening Grosbeaks seen November 11 at 

 Millers and on the 19th at Mineral Springs, 

 feeding on the flowering dogwood. Other 

 records are: Red-throated Loon, and Fox 

 Sparrow at Tremont, November 10; and at 

 Mineral Springs Saw-whet Owl, November 

 12; Redpolls and Siskins, the 19th; and 

 Robins and Bluebirds the gth and three 

 Robins again on the 19th. 



Other rare and unusual visitors are: 

 White Pelican, found dead on the beach at 

 Dune Park, Indiana, on October 23, by 

 membjrz of the Chicago Camera Club, who 

 took a number of pictures of the bird which 

 are conclusive proof of the record. G. W. 

 Lewis and James Watson found a Jaeger at 



