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1890.] Chapman on the Winter Distribution of the Bobolink. 
It is 
said to be most 
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niversal dis- 
common, and restricted to the cultivated valleys, 
numerous about places where bees are kept. 
25. Myiarchus crinitus. Crested Flycatcher.- 
persioti throughout the region; common. 
26. Sayornis phcebe. Phcebe. — About the town of Chester, I have 
never met with the Phoebe during the month of June. In my wagon tour 
across the country .it was first encountered, June 5, at Fair Forest, five 
miles west of Spartanburgh. On the same day its loud cries were heard 
at the South Fork of Tiger River, also in.Spartanburgh County. June 4, 
1888, a pair were found established at a small mill-pond midway between 
the villages of Easley and Pickens. At Mt. Pinnacle, it is common in the 
vicinage of water, ranging up. to about 2500 feet. Back on the heights, 
sheltered situations in the walls of rock are frequently selected as nesting 
places. Young birds, just ready\o leave the nest, were seen as late as 
June 23 in 1887. / 
27. Contopus virens. Wood Pewi?^. — Conspicuously common every- 
where in the woods./ 
28. Empidonax acadicus. Acadian Flycatcher.- — Most widely dis- 
persed at the lower levels. Along the larger streams it reaches a higher 
elevation than elsewhere in the mountains. Otj the north fork of the 
Oolenoy,.riear the High-low Gap, it was common aKj5oo feet, the highest 
point at which the species was observed. 
( To be continued.) 
ON THE WINTER DISTRIBUTION OF THE BOBO- 
LINK ( DOLICHONTX ORYZIVORUS) WITH 
REMARKS ON ITS ROUTES OF MIGRATION. 
BY FRANK M. CHAPMAN. 
Among our summer resident land birds the Bobolink is in its 
migrations remarkable for two things ; first, the extent of 
its wanderings during the winter ; second, the comparatively 
late date at which its spring migration is completed. These 
are both well-known facts, and I shall here simply endeavor 
to bring forward and arrange the records on which they are 
based, adding some new data furnished by an examination of 
the material in the American Museum of Natural History. It is 
to be regretted that a large proportion of the extra-limital records 
consist merely of mention of the bird’s name and the locality of its 
1056. Ravages of Rice-Birds. By Hon. Warner Miller. Congres- 
sional Record , 49th Congress, June 11, 1886, p. 5747. — A loss of $6.87 
per acre caused by the Rice Birds to the rice crop, and the total annual 
loss to one plantation is estimated at $8,250. 
6S7. Bobolinks. Editorial. Ibid.., p. 14.— On their scarcity in Con- 
necticut, and their wholesale destruction by gunners along the Delaware 
and southward in the fall. 1,000,000 Rails and Bobolinks killed near the 
mouth of the Delaware “during the month of September alone 
1247. Economic Ornithology. Ibid., No. 18, Oct. 30, p. 415-— On the 
work of the Division of Economic Ornithology, Dept, of Agriculture, in 
rocuring data concerning the relations to man of Passer, do, nesticus and 
Asaencaa Field, X2CVI 
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pro 
Dolichonyx oryzivonis. 
1164. [Disappearance of~\ the Bobolink [in Central New York. 1 By 
Portsa. Ibid., No. i, July 29, p. 4lfQr» & Stream. Vol.XXVil 
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