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EvERMANN, Birds of Carroll County, Indiana. 



[October 



June lo and 17 would be the best time to find the female build- 

 ing (it would be next to useless to search for the nests after they 

 are completed), while June 25 to July i should be early 

 enough to expect full sets of eggs. But opposed to this conclu- 

 sion are the early date (June 36) at which I found young on 

 wing near Winchendon in 1887 and the record * by Mr. Charles 

 H. Andros of a set of ten eggs taken by Mr. Cheney at Grand 

 Manan, New Brunswick, "on or about June i." It is possible 

 that the species rears two broods in a season but, on the whole, 

 I am inclined to believe that its time of nesting is irregular, 

 varying at different places or at the same place in different years. 



Auk, Oct., 1888. p. 331- 



BIRDS OF CARROLL COUNTY, INDIANA. 



BY BARTON W. EVERMANN. 



(3*aROLL County lies in the northern central part of Indiana, 

 about ohe hundred miles south of Lake Michigan. The chief 

 river of thbsCounty is the Wabash, which flows southwest across 

 the north weH. part of the County. The greater part of th^ 

 County lies to t^&^ast and southeast of the river, and is draified 

 into it by Rock, D^r, and Wild Cat Creeks. TWTippe- 

 canoe River flows for a<^ miles through the nortliwest corner 

 of the County, its directiodSbeing almost due south. 



All that portion of the CoWy lying to tji^ast and southeast 

 of the Wabash (embracing teiiW the,-^rteen townships) was 

 originally very heavily timbered^^itod there yet remain many 

 uncleared acres. The chief foi>dst tree^s^-e beech, red and white 

 oak, elm, ash, poplar (tulir^, sycamore, rh^le (hard and soft), 

 walnut (black and wMte), hickory, — in shoHthe usual decidu- 

 ous trees of thexJrdinary forest of central Indi^M. There are 

 practically iK^pines or other evergreens in the CouH^, except a 

 very few^ong the Tippecanoe. The three township\lving on 

 the right bank of the Wabash differ materially from those\n the 

 (jtKer side. Adams, the most eastern of the three, is inclineiisto 



* Ornithologist and Oologist, Vol. 12, p. 203. 



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