198 The Wilson Bulletin — Xo. 97 



The locality is a mixed woods crowning a high bluff on Grand 

 River. It is much intersected by hemlock grown ravines, and in 

 places thick with undergrowth. I first found a singing male in 

 1914, on July 19th. 



In 1915 I visited the place earlier — on June 20th — and again 

 found a singing male. 



This year I was there again on July 2nd and while a male bird 

 was singing in the hemlocks behind me, I watched a female gather 

 her bill full of insect food from the trees and then suddenly dart 

 away across a ravine. Lack of time and the deep ravines prevented 

 a serious search for the nest. 



Late Bobolinks: I thought I had made a late record for Bobo- 

 links in 1915 when on the 29th of August I discovered a flock of 

 15 or 20 in "Reed Bird" plumage feeding in a low corn field much 

 overgrowTi with fox tail grass; but I went the record several bet- 

 ter this fall by flushing a single bird on Sept. 12, from the edge of 

 a sedge-grown marsh. As he came up out of the tangle and flew 

 away he gave a few fragmentary notes of his summer song inter- 

 mingled with the numerous "chinks" of alarm. 



Redpolls: Two friends and myself had the pleasure of watching 

 a flock of 25 or 30 of these birds on April 15th of this year feeding 

 along the edge of a sheltered shrub-grown swamp. A number of 

 them (Were full plumaged males. 



Caspian Tern: After looking in vain for a number of years to 

 find this bird about Fairport Harbor I was rewarded this fall on 

 Aug. 23 by seeing two suspects wing, by. A few days later sev- 

 eral were seen under more favorable circumstances and their 

 Idenity easily proven. On Sept. 8, while I sat by the lighthouse at 

 the end. of the pier, several were fishing at the mouth of the river 

 and many more were flying about higher up, and uttering their 

 hoarse squawks. 



I watched them until tired of it and started; up the beach when, 

 as I raised my head over a stone breakwater, there stood eighteen 

 of them not a hundred feet away on the sand. They were all 

 pointed in one direction and reminded me of a company of soldiers, 

 the big red bills seemingly a mark of distinction for services ren- 

 dered. Herring and Bonaparte Gulls and Common Tern are .pres- 

 ent every fall but this is the first time I have found the Caspians. 



E. A. DOOLITTLE. 



Painesville, 0. 



