A List of the Birds of Bardstown, Kentucky. 147 
them as intruders, who were to be vigorously put down. The nearest 
water was a spring branch, a hundred yards distant, which they regu- 
larly visited two or three times a day. They remained all summer, 
apparently perfectly satisfied with their hum-drum domestic life, but 
in September they wandered off, probably impelled by the migratory in- 
stinct. 
161. Grus americanus (L.), Temm.— Whooping Crane.—Mr. E. E. 
McKay informs me that many years ago he has observed this bird 
near Bloomfield, in this county. 
162. Grus cANADENSIS (L.), Temm.—Sandhill Crane.—Inserted on 
the authority of Mr. E, E. McKay, who has frequently scen it on the 
Beech Fork of Salt river, in this county. 
163. BrrnicLa CANADENSIS (L.), Boie—Canada Goose.—A rather 
uncommon migrant. 
164. Anas BoscHAs, L.—Mallard.—A common migrant. 
165. QuERQUEDULA piscors (L.), Steph.—Blwe-winged Teal.—A 
common migrant. 
166. *Arx sponsa (L.), Boie— Wood Duck; Summer Duck.—An 
uncommon summer resident. | 
167. Popitymusus popicers (L.), Lawr.—Thick-billed Grebe; 
“ Didapper.”—A common migrant. 
It will be at once observed, that, as regards the Striges, Accipitres, 
and the Water Birds, that the list is very incomplete. Not being suf- 
ficiently intimate with our birds of prey, to infallibly identify them at 
a distance, or expert enough as a collector to capture the wary ban- 
ditti, I have to leave out many species that are almost certainly to be 
found here. And on account of the almost total absence of marshes, 
sloughs and ponds, very few water birds ever halt here in their migra- 
tions. The Passerine portion of the list is very much better: the only 
additional species that can reasonably be expected to be found here 
being--- Parus atricapillus, Troglodytes edon, Telmatodytes palustris, 
Protonataria citrea, Helminthotherus vermivorus, Hirundo bicolor, 
Lantus ludovicianus, Plectrophanes nivalis, Coturniculus henslowt, 
Guiraca cerulea, and Empidonax pusillus trailli. 
Audubon mentions Protonetaria citrea as being common near Louis- 
ville, and there are many other birds which he alludes to as being 
found in Kentucky, which the local character of this list excludes. 
The 167 species may be roughly arranged as follows: (1) Summer 
Residents, 51; (2) Constant Residents, 36; (3) Winter Visitants, 16; 
(4) Migrants, 64. 
January 2d, 1883. 
