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did not know if all were nesting or 

 not. 



Coming back down on the bank I 

 found the Kingfisher to be just start- 

 ing his tunnel and the Swallow had 

 just begun to carry grass into theirs, 

 so I left them alone, although not good 

 for collecting it was an enjoyable day 

 of bird study. 



The following is a list of birds I 

 saw that day, from 7 a. m. until dark: 

 194 Great Blue Heron 

 200 Little Blue Heron 

 263 Spotted Sandpiper 

 289 Bobwhite 

 316 Mourning Dove 



325 Turkey Vulture 



326 Black Vulture 

 331 Marsh Hawk 

 333 Cooper Hawk 

 337 Red-tailed Hawk 

 373 Screech Owl 



387 Yellow Billed Cuckoo 

 390 Downy Woodpecker 



405 Pileated Woodpecker 



406 Red-headed Woodpecker 

 412 Flicker 



420 Night Hawk 



423 Chimney Swift 



428 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 



444 King Bird. 



452 Crested Flycatcher 



456 Phoebe 



474 Blue Jay 



488 Crows 



495 Cowbird 



498 Red-winged Blackbird 



501 Meadowlark 



508 Orchard Oriole 



511 Bronzed Grackle 



529 Goldfinch 



552 Lark Sparrow 



560 Chipping Sparrow 



597 Blue Grosbeak 



604 Dickcissel 



613 Barn Swallow 



622 Loggerheaded Shrike 



636 Yellow Warbler 



68- Md. Yellow Throat 



684 Hooded Warbler 



703 Mocking Birds 

 705 Brown Thrasher 



727 White-breasted Nuthatch 



735 Chickadee 



555 White-throated Sparrow 



563 Field Sparrow 



593 Cardinal 



598 Indigo Bunting 



611 Purple Martin 



617 Rough-winged Swallow 



624 Red-eyed Vireo 



676 La. Water Thrush 



683 Yellow-breasted Chat 



704 Catbird 



719 Caroline Wren 



725 Long-billed Marsh Wren 



731 Tufted Titmouse 



761 Robin 



766 Blue Bird 



I had no field glasses with me, and 

 this list was compiled by close obser- 

 vation. 



Johnson Neff, 

 Marionville, Missouri. 



An Illinois Turkey Buzzard. 



On May the 28th of this year, a 

 young farmer came into my office 

 looking wild eyed, and stated that he 

 had that morning shot a big bird 

 which he believed was a buzzard and 

 laid himself liable to a fine, and he 

 wanted to know what he should do 

 about it. He had never seen one of 

 these great birds close up and he shot 

 it thinking it to be a big hawk. 



Questioned about it, he said that 

 the crows had something treed over 

 in his woods and suspecting a big owl 

 or hawk, he had slipped up close and 

 when it flew out of the tree gavo it a 

 shot on the wing, bringing it down 

 dead. Needing one of these big birds 

 to complete my collection of mounted 

 raptores, I asked him to bring it to 

 me, promising to protect him from 

 any fine. He phoned out to his son 

 and in about a half hour, the bird was 



