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13tli for the Kingbird. This shows that when raw, cold or 
stormy weather prevails here in April or May, it will retard 
the migration of species having wintered in South America, but 
already landed on our Gulf coast in their northward migration, 
and the most important part of the migration, that of May, be- 
comes normal again. 
An unsuspected consequence of the mildness of the season was 
the shift of the breeding range of at least one southerly species 
northward. This is the Tufted Titmouse, it breeds commonly 
30 miles to the south, and even at Riverside, live miles away. I 
had seen it once or twice in our woods, but only at the end of 
the winter, never later. This last winter about four pairs took 
possession of Thatcher’s Woods and made it melodious at once. 
Later, in April, I saw them inspect knot holes in trees, and they 
remained, following the Cardinal, which has moved in within 
the last ten years. 
July, 1921. 
BIRDS SEEN AT THE MOUTH OF THE OHIO RIVER 
BY GORDON WILSON 
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BOWLING GREEN, KY. 
For several years I have spent a week or more of my vaca- 
tion, some time between July 27 and September 15, at Wick- 
liffe, Kentucky, which is located near the junction of the Ohio 
and Mississippi Rivers and nearly opposite to Cairo, Illinois. 
Six miles above the town, which is located on the first bluffs 
below the mouth of the Ohio, stretches the great bottom. No 
levees have been built here and the bottom is still rather wild. 
Only a few hundred of the four or five thousand acres in this 
tract are in cultivation. The rest of the bottom is covered with 
open woods, marshes, and lakes. Some thirty-five lakes are 
of sufficient importance to have been named and there are many 
more which are almost or wholly dry late in the season. One 
of the most notable of these marshes is Swan Fond, some 500 
acres in extent, which is covered with duck-weeds and water- 
lilies. Most of the lakes are bordered with tangles of elbow 
shrubs, while cypress knees and duck-weeds often extend far 
out into the water. After the fall rains set in, the bottom is 
almost inaccessible, but in the summer and fall it is a great 
pleasure ground. The ponds are still full of fish, for every win- 
ter they are restocked by the annual overflow of the rivers. 
