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also found after a cold spell. The only sapsucker which stayed 

 with me last^winter and tapped the sugar maples successfully as 

 early as New Year's day, succumbed to the cold on the tenth 

 of February. Of the vast number of birds that perished in the 

 woods and fields we shall never hear, because in such hard times 

 the hungry eyes of beasts and birds of prey, of crows and shrikes, 

 jays and others have found them long before man would get a 

 chance. Still in the southern states, where bluebirds had already 

 taken up their holes, the instances where dead bluebirds have been 

 found by man are on record. Mrs. Stephenson of Helena, Ar- 

 kansas, wrote me of several cases which came to her knowledge. 



"Besides the Bluebirds and Robins several species seemed to 

 have £(uffered great losses. In the first place the Myrtle Warbler. 

 The yield of favorite berries, wild grapes and poison ivy being 

 great, numbers of the birds remained in our woods. Hundreds 

 were seen in our tract as late as the twentieth of January. When 

 spring migrants came very few passed through here." 



I quote from Mr. Widman's letter fully for it well illustrates 

 the reason why in the spring of some years the migration of cer- 

 tain species seems far too small in the more northern states. 



LOCALITIES OF INTEREST. 



An unusually rich field for the study of maritime species and 

 occasional visitors from the far north is in the vicinity of Millers, 

 Indiana, about thirty miles southeast of Chicago, and within the 

 limits of our area. (See plate i and frontispiece). This locality 

 is near the southern end of Lake Michigan. Here may be seen, 

 particularly during the fall migration, such species as the Glau- 

 cous Gull (Larus glaucf's), the Kittiwake (Rissa iridactyla), the 

 Caspian Tern (Sterna caspia), the Dowitcher {Macrorhampus 

 griseus), the Knot (Tringa canutus), the Purple Sandpiper (Ar- 

 quatella maritima), the Baird's Sandpiper (Actodromas bairdii), 

 the Sanderling (Calidris arenaria), the Willet (Symphemia semi- 

 palmata), the Black-bellied Plover (Squatarola squatarola), the 

 Semipalmated Plover (^gialitis semipalmata) , and the Turn- 

 stone (Arenaria inferpres) . 



On the rich meadows in the western portion of Cook County, 

 in the vicinity of Worth Township, may be found resident such 

 species as Henslow's Sparrow (Ammodramus henslowii), Grass- 

 hopper Sparrow (Coturniculus savannarum passerinus). Lark 

 Sparrow (Chondestes grammacus), and during migrations Le- 



