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and the Spotted Sandpiper on the i8th. The 

 Sora, Florida Gallinule, and Bank Swallow 

 were first noted on the 24th. With the last 

 two days of April the weather became more 

 favorable bringing Green Heron, Water 

 Thrush, and Catbird on the 29th, and Balti- 

 more Oriole, Black-throated Green Warbler, 

 Black and White Warbler, and Common 

 Tern on the 30th. 



The weather for May was generally fair 

 and warm so that the migration progressed 

 quite steadily. Increased numbers of the Red- 

 headed Woodpeckers were noticed on May 2. 

 Warbling Vireos and Blackburnian Warblers 

 came on the same date. Ovenbirds and Wood 

 Thrushes, although first found on the 2d, 

 probably arrived a few days earlier. Kingbird 

 and Northern Yellowthroat came on the 4th, 

 Cerulean Warbler on the 5th. On the 6th, on 

 a hike taken to the lake, a number of new 

 migrants were found, Crested and Least 

 Flycatchers, White-crowned Sparrow, Scarlet 

 Tanager, Red-eyed Vireo, Magnolia, Nash- 

 ville, Chestnut-sided and Blue-winged War- 

 blers, Blue-headed Vireo, Long-billed Marsh 

 Wren, Veery, and Olive-backed Thrush. 

 Yellow-throated Vireo, Tennessee Warbler, 

 and Redstart came on the 7th, Caspian and 

 Black Terns, Semipalmated Plover, Orchard 

 Oriole and Ruby-throated Hummingbird 

 on the 8th. 



There seems to have been a lull in the 

 migration now until the nth. Between the 

 nth and 13th the height of the migration was 

 reached. During this period the arrivals were 

 the Wood Pewee, Bay-breasted, Black- 

 throated Blue Wilson, Can.ida, Mourninc: 

 Prothonotary, and Prairie Warblers, YeiL w 

 breasted Chat, Acadian Flycatcher, Piping 

 Plover, Whip-poor-will, Indigo Bunting, and 

 Rose-breasted Grosbeak. The first Black- 

 poU Warbler was noted on the 18th. 



A last small wave came on the 20th and 

 2ist bringing the Olive-sided Flycatcher and 

 taking away most of the Warblers. However, 

 a few Wilson, Magnolia, Canada, Mourning, 

 and Black-poll Warblers were still with us 

 on the 27th. 



The Warblers on the whole and the Mag- 

 nolia, Cerulean, and Black-throated Green 

 in particular seem to be exceptionally numer- 

 ous this spring. The Mourning Warbler has 



been seen a number of times, while the 

 Black-throated Blue on the contrary has been 

 represented by only a very few individuals. 

 Of the winter birds the Tree Sparrow and 

 Brown Creeper departed about the normal 

 time, the Golden-crowned Kinglet and Red- 

 breasted Nuthatch somewhat before and the 

 Junco and Purple Finch somewhat after 

 theirs. — S. Charles Kendeigh, President of 

 Cardinal Ornithological Club, Oberlin, Ohio. 



Minneapolis Region. — The third week 

 of April continued cold and raw. The ice in 

 the larger lakes in the vicinity of Minneapolis 

 went to pieces slowly, disappearing finally 

 shortly after the middle of the month (Lake 

 Minnetonka, April 16), but in the northern 

 part of the state it remained some days 

 longer (broke up in I ake Itasca April 23, 

 Orcutt Frost) and drifting ice was present in 

 Lake Superior throughout the month. At 

 Minneapolis, on May 19, the temperature fell 

 to 27° and a blizzard with a fall of 2 to 6 

 inches of snow visited all parts of the state. 

 The snow soon melted in the south but lasted 

 a day or two farther north. The weather 

 service reported this the worst April storm in 

 Minnesota since 1907. Real spring weather 

 followed quickly in the wake of this final blast 

 of winter and throughout the remainder of 

 April and all of May the weather continued 

 fairly equable, temperatures in the daytime 

 rarely sinking below 50° or rising above 75". 

 There were a few hot days in mid-May which 

 changed a previously backward, lagging 

 soring into a rapidly advancing one, so that 

 the season jumped all at once, about May 20, 

 into conditions very like early summer. 

 Before this time the spring had bee.i regarded, 

 from the farmer's standpoint, as a late one 

 and a lack of sufl&cient rain had furnished an 

 additional drawback. Following the early 

 freshets, the lakes and streams were abnor- 

 mally low and the marshes and swamps 

 unusually dry. 



June thus far has been a hot month and 

 there has been a considerable increase in 

 rainfall but this, unfortunately, has come in 

 the shape of severe downpours, accompanied 

 at times by high winds reaching in places 

 tornado violence, wrecking thousands of trees 

 and doing great damage to property of 



