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Apr. 28. Increased: Black- throated Bunting (male), Cliff Swallow, Barn Swallow, Black-throated Green 

 "Warbler. 

 L. Hermit Thrush. 



29. Night: Clear, becoming cloudy; wind light, southeast; temperature steady at 63°. 



First hot day; maximum temperature 82° (77° at 6 p.m.). The bird wave struck fully. In- 

 credible number of birds present. 



B. A. Catbirds arrived in force (male, female, and T. Y.) : Black-throated Buntings (male) at 

 stands, and small parties on the wing going east; Olive-backed Thrush and Small-billed 

 "Water Thrush in flocks ; Goldfinch (female)^ Indigo-bird (male), Orchard Oriole (old males); 

 "Warbling Yireo, Black-throated Green Warbler, Yellow-breasted Chat, Bed-eyed Yireo, 

 Bed-headed Woodpecker, Black and White Creeper, White-crowned Sparrow. 



F. Scarlet Tanager, Wilson's IThrnsh, Nighthawk, Bobolink (male), Wood Pewee, Traill" s Fly- 

 catcher, Acadian Flycatcher, Least Flycatcher, Tennessee Warbler, Nashville "Warbler, 

 Black-poll Warbler, Worm-eating Warbler. Blue-headed Yireo, Red-bellied Nuthatch, Great- 

 crested Flycatcher, Lincoln's Sparrow, Bank Swallow, Black-crowned Night Heron. Apple 

 trees in full bloom ; oaks open flowers. 



Note. — This enormous volume of bird life seems to have resulted from the combined operation of 

 the following bird wave ; the start began in the north, and the warm wave reached Saint Louis the night 

 of the 24th. at which time many birds left, but none arrived. The same warm wave, progressing from 

 the Bocky Mountains eastward, started from El Paso on the 22d, reached Fort Smith and Shreveport 

 on the 24th. Little Bock on the 25th, and the birds which arrived in Saint Louis on the 26th came 

 probably from the southwest. The cold wave hovered over Kentncky from the 20th to the 25th, and 

 no movement can have taken place before that day j but when, on the night of the 28th, the bulk of 

 birds from that quarter (southeast) reached Saint Louis it swelled the number of arrivals (from south 

 and southwest) to this enormous height. 



30. Another warm night ; thermometer 70° ; clear ; wind light, south. Birds, move. 



Day : Hot ; thermometer 83° ; wind southeast to southwest. More birds left than arrived. 

 H. Yellow-breasted Chat (T. Y.). WhrTe-crowned Sparrow. Black-throated Green Warbler, 



Savanna Sparrow, Bed-headed Woodpecker, Goldfinch, White-eyed Yireo (T. Y.), Coerulean 



"Warbler, Chimney Swift. 

 B. A. Kentucky "Warbler, Great-crested Flycatcher, Hooded "Warbler, Maryland Yellow-throat 



(female), Redstart (female). 

 Increased: Bobolink, Bell's Yireo, Indigo-bird (male), Black-throated Bunting (male), Acadian 



Flycatcher, Tennessee Warbler. Nashville Warbler, Black-poll Warbler. 

 F. Yellow- winged Sparrow, Orchard Oriole (two vear old male). 

 L. Shoveller Duck. 

 May 1. Bain both night and day ; clearing in afternoon, with strong west wind. 

 From May 1 to May 4, a stand-still. 



2. Cool ; wind northwest ; clearing. 



3. Cool; wind northeast : in afternoon southeast, with rising temperature. 



4. Bain ; rising temperature ; wind south. Nighthawks move. 



5. Night: clear; almost calm; wind southeast to south; warm; thermometer 63°. Birds move 



decidedly. 



Day: Fair; becoming threatening ; in afternoon a thunder-storm. 



H. House Wren, Maryland Yellow-throat, Summer Yellowbird, Black-throated Bunting (male), 

 Catbird, Chimney Swift. 



B. Continued of Olive-backed Thrush, Small-billed Water Thrush, and White-crowned Sparrow. 



B. A. Bank Swallow, Wood Thrash (female), Lincoln's Sparrow, Rose-breasted Grosbeak (fe- 

 male), Indigo-bird (male). Baltimore Oriole (female). 



Increased: Wood Pewee, Traill's Flycatcher, Orchard Oriole (males two years old) , Tennessee 

 Warbler, Nashville Warbler. 



F. Black-billed Cuckoo, Hummingbird, Black and Yellow Warbler, Pine-creeping Warbler, 

 Blue-headed Yireo (female). Indigo-hird (female). Orchard Oriole (female), Baltimore Oriole 

 (birds of last vear). Blue Yellow-backed Warbler (T. Y.), Solitarv Sandpiper. 



B. D. GoldfinclUT. Y. males). Yellow-breasted Chat (T. Y.), White-eyed Yireo (T. Y.), Yel- 

 low rurnped Warbler (young). 



L. Red-bellied Nuthatch" flock of Purple Finch (youncr), Red-poll Warbler. 



6. Night: Partly clear; warm; temperature 62° ; wind south to southeast. 

 New arrivals. 



Day: Rainy, dark : wind shifting to west ; falling temperature. 



Many T. Y. present. 



F. Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Black-poll Warbler (female), Black-capped Flycatching "Warbler, 



Chestnut-sided Warbler. 

 Increased: White-throated Sparrow (young). 



B. A. Black-poll Warbler (male), Black rnd Yellow Warbler, Redstart (T. Y.). 

 H. Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Orchard Oriole (male), Indigo-bird (male). 



7. Night and day : Strong west wind ; dark. 



8. Night : Clear^fair, cool ; wind west to northwest. 



Day. Clear, beautiful; thermometer 72° ; Avind northwest. A great day for wandering Bobo- 

 links. 

 B. D. Catbird (T. Y.), Golden Warbler (T. A^.), Goldfinch (female). 

 F. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. 



9. Night: clear, bright.' full moon : wind northwest ; thermometer 64°. 

 Day : Clear, bright, lovely : wind northwest. 



H. Bobolink (male), Tennessee Warbler (male), Black-poll Warbler (male), Bedstart (female). 



B. A. Indigo-bird (female and young male), Orchard Oriole (female), Least Flycatcher, Black- 

 throated" Bunting (young males). 



F. Orchard Oriole (one-year-old males). 

 10. Night: Clear, calm; wind northwest ; warm; thermometer G9 3 . 



Day: Fair: wind changing to southeast; rising temperature ; thermometer 85°. 



Full bloom : Oak. Hickorv, Walnut. 



Manv T. Y. Warblers. 



F. Blue Golden-winged Warbler, Orange-crowned Warbler, Blue Yellow-backed Warbler 

 (young). 



B. A. Yellow- winged Sparrow. Cuckoo. 



H. Chestnut-sided, Black and Yellow, Black-poll, Nashville anil Tennessee Warblers. 



