THE 



WILSON BULLETIN 



A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF 

 ORNITHOLOGY 



Vol. IX. SEPTEMBER, 1902. No. 3. 



A PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE BIRDS OF MID- 

 DLE SOUTHERN OHIO. 



BY REV. W. F HENNINGER. 



WHENEVER Dr. Wheaton, in his list of the Birds of Ohio, 

 speaks of Southern Ohio, he refers either to Cincinnati or 

 Circleville and vicinity. But Circleville, if we divide the 

 State into three equal parts, does not even belong to South- 

 ern Ohio, but only to the southern part of Central Ohio. 

 There is very little known concerning the avifauna of South- 

 ern Ohio; since 1796, when Wilson traveled through this 

 region, practically nothing has been done ornithologically. 

 The writer's observations in this paper are restricted to Sci- 

 oto and Pike counties, and while he has done a great deal of 

 work in Jackson and Ross counties, they are very similar to 

 parts of Scioto and Pike county and their ornis likewise is 

 practically the same. The observations were made from 

 three points principally: South Webster, in the extreme 

 northeast of Scioto county; Wheelersburg, on the Ohio 

 River, in the southeastern part of Scioto county; and Wav- 

 ly, the county seat of Pike county. From Aug. 15, 1894, 

 till Sept. 1, 1897, observations were confined to South Web- 

 ster only. Both counties were traversed in every direction, 

 as was also Jackson county, while Ross county's southern 



