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with the first warm wave the last of the month, and by February 1 the 
van approximated quite closely to the parallel of 39°. Here it came to 
a fall stop, and made no advance until March 9, There were only five 
records of Bluebirds north of latitude 39° before March 9, and all these 
‘were from stations near large rivers. Starting then at latitude 39° on 
March 9, when the warm south wind was felt, the Bluebirds practically 
completed their migration before the 1st of April. To be sure, a few 
individuals were moving north during April and May, but the great 
bulk of the species stopped between latitude 45° and latitude 469°, 
and those which went farther north might almost be called stragglers. 
The impetuosity of their migration was checked, and they moved in 
small companies, seldom of more than a pair or two, slowly idling along 
as if undecided where to stop. During March their progress was as 
follows: By March 16 they had reached latitude 429, by March 22 lati- 
tude 43° 30’, and by March 24 latitude 45°. There is no plainer and 
better attested record concerning any bird than that of the arrival of the 
Bluebird, March 24, all along the forty-fifth parallel in Wisconsin and 
Minnesota. A great change now took place in their speed. They were 
two months and a day in passing from latitude 45° to latitude 47°. 
They did not appear at Frazee City, Minn. (lat. 46° 33’), until May 25; 
nor was the record accidental, since the same observation has been sev- 
eral times recorded in former years. May 29a pair of stragglers arrived 
at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, the first Mr. Nash had ever seen in the 
province. They remained, and at last accounts were breeding. This 
is one of the most northern records for the species. Mr. Seton (now 
Thompson) states that it is rare in Manitoba, but most common in the 
region about Winnipeg. 
Again, as in the case of the Robin, the extreme western records are 
found to be much later than the eastern. At Ellis (lat. 38° 55’), just 
west of Manhattan, Kans. (where the species wintered abundantly), 
none were seen until March 19; and at Vermillion, Dak. (lat. 429 56/), 
they did not arrive until March 29. The bulk followed the first very 
closely, and in but one or two cases was its arrival more than three or 
four days later. 
In the fall of 1884 at Elk River, Minn., the departure of the bulk and 
the last of the Bluebirds was recorded October 10; and at Des Moines, 
Iowa, October 25. At Mount Carmel, Mo., the last was seen October 28. 
In the spring of 1885 a set of notes was received from about latitude 
37°, which can be regarded as indicating either winter residence or very 
early spring migration. These refer to the presence of Bluebirds dur- 
ing the first week in February in Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas. A 
little farther north, at Odin, IIL, one was seen February 7. If these 
records indicate migration, it was at a standstill during the next three 
weeks, since no other evidence of movement was reported until the last 
two days of the month. , 
The bulk of males came to Saint Louis February 28, closely following 
