32 THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 



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Mrs. Clara Lampert, Deputy Clerk of the Circuit Court, sent 

 in an article which appeared in the Belvidere Daily Republican 

 in early May, and together with some notes made in May by 

 Alfred Engstrom, a young and enthusiastic observer whose re- 

 ports are carefully made. Mrs. Lampert adds some September 

 notes of her own. The newspaper article was by Mrs. Cleland 

 and is as follows : 



This is the list of birds seen by a Boone County, Illinois farm- 

 er's wife, who has never gone on a bird-hunt, but has seen these 

 birds at her home or along the roads. Between January 1 and 

 April 25, she has identified 35 species of birds, a few new ones, 

 but mostly old friends : 



All winter the crows flew past — east in the morning, west at 

 night; the marsh hawk, easily identified by its ring tail, floated 

 over the fields, the horned larks ran along the roads ; the red 

 headed woodpecker lived well on grains or corn from the silage 

 wagon carrying them to an oak tree ; downy and hairy wood- 

 peckers ate suet from a maple tree near the kitchen door; the 

 prairie chickens and blue jays stay the year around; a brown 

 creeper was seen in Belvidere. 



The first migrants seen were the wild geese, wild ducks, 

 juncoes and killdeer. Song sparrows, robins, grackles, red 

 winged blackbirds and bluebirds were seen in March, and the 

 hermit thrush picked up crumbs with the robin and song spar- 

 row during the sleet storm. The "new" birds were the redpoll, 

 which was seen twice, and the ruby crowned kinglet, seen several 

 times during first week in April. The winter wren made his 

 third annual visit, appearing at 5 a. m. under the bedroom 

 window. 



The house wrens are here, and the other two woodpeckers — 

 the yellow bellied sapsucker and the flickers. The belted king- 

 fisher, the solitary sandpiper and the great blue heron have come 

 back to the stream. The loggerhead shrike is following the disc,, 

 getting worms. Vesper sparrow, white throat sparrow, brown 

 thrasher, rusty blackbird and mourning dove complete the list 

 to April 25, 1922. 



Alfred Engstrom's notes were made on the ninth of May 

 and consist of the birds he saw that day: 



Magnolia, Chestnut-sided, Redstart, Yellow, Golden-winged, 

 Canada, Nashville, Black-and-white Creeping, Cape May, Ten- 

 nessee, Black-throated Green, Black-throated Blue, Oven Bird, 

 Catbird, Red-headed Woodpecker, Robin, Bronzed Grackle, Cow- 

 bird, Baltimore Oriole, Blue Jay, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Screech 

 Owl, Purple Martin, Chimney Swift, Ruby-throated Humming 

 Bird, Phoebe, White-throated Sparrow, Red-breasted Nuthatch, 

 Wood Thrush, Mourning Dove, Killdeer Plover, Brown Thrasher, 

 Field Sparrow, Green Heron, Flicker, Bank Swallow, Belted 



