the: WILSON BULLETIN 
A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY 
VOL. XXXIV JUNE, 1922 NO. 2 
OLD SERIES VOL. XXXIV. NEW SERIES VOL. XXIX 
BIRD NOTES FROM SOUTHERN WISCONSIN 
BY H. L. STODDARD 
PUBLIC MUSEUM, MILWAUKEE, WIS. 
Any restricted area in our latitude that combines rugged, 
heavily wooded bluffs, large marshes, sandy prairies and other 
waste lands, with lakes, creeks, rivers, sloughs, and wooded 
bottoms, is certain to have a varied and abundant bird popu- 
lation. Such a place is found in south-central Wisconsin, 
within a radius of fifteen miles of the villages of Prairie du 
Sac and Sauk City, where Sauk, Columbia, and Dane Counties 
border on the Wisconsin River. 
A residence of five years and various collecting trips prior 
to 1913 had made me familiar with the region and awake to 
its bird study possibilities. Therefore the opportunity of re- 
visiting this favorite section — and renewing acquaintances 
both human and avian, was welcomed. Here the greater part 
of the time was spent from April 9 to June 13, 1921, collecting 
material for several large bird groups for the Milwaukee Pub- 
lic Museum, and all specimens mentioned as taken on this trip 
are in the collection of that institution. 
One side trip was made to Fox Lake, Dodge County, where 
I joined Mr. George Shrosbree, Chief Taxidermist of the Mu- 
seum, on May 17 for ten days in a Great Blue Heron colony, 
making the necessary collections and studies for a large group 
of these picturesque birds, and another to a Black-crowned 
Night Heron colony, near Darlington, Lafayette County, June 
3 and 4, on a similar errand. The latter trip was made in com- 
pany of Messrs. Shrosbree and E. D. Ochsner in the latter’s 
automobile, a fine cross-country drive totalling about one hun- 
dred and forty miles. 
The remainder of our stay at Prairie du Sac was spent vis- 
iting favorable localities in all directions by auto, motor boat, 
and on foot. We made our headquarters while here at the 
home of Mr. Ochsner, taxidermist, who has a collection of local 
birds containing many rarities. 
