ON THE BIRDS OF SHIOCTON IN BOVINA, OUTAGAMIE 
COUNTY, WISCONSIN, 1881-83. 
F. L. GRUNDTVIG. 
[Translated by Charles E. Faxon, from the “ Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den natur- 
historiske Forening i Kjobenhavn for Aaret 1887,” pp. 303-396, Copenhagen , 1888.] 
WITH A MAP. 
The systematic names of the birds are those given in “ The Code of 
Nomenclature and Check List of North American Birds, adopted by the 
American Ornithologists’ Union,” New York, 1886. Unfortunately the 
new edition of E. Coues’s “Key to North American Birds” could not be 
made use of. Measurements are given in millimetres, when not other¬ 
wise noted. 1 mile = 1609 metres. Of abbreviations and signs may be 
named: L., length; B., breadth; E., extent; W., wing; T., tail; B., bill; M., 
measurement; X, resident; X X, summer resident; XXX, migrant; <, less 
than; >, greater than; C. L., above-named “Check List;” Davie, 0. 
Davie’s “Nests and Eggs of North American Birds,” 1866. 
I. INTRODUCTION. . 
For two years — from October, 1881, to October, 1883 — I 
lived at the “Striped House” on the Shioc river, a mile and a 
half north of the village of Shiocton. The situation is given 
on the accompanying map. I employed a large part of my time 
in studying the bird-life of the immediate vicinity. It was 
very seldom that I did not make one or more trips a day for 
this purpose. I traversed almost daily that part of the region 
designated by the section numbers 16 and<21, and usually ex¬ 
amined all that piece of land situated on the map north of the 
railway. In what follows I will, for convenience, call this re¬ 
gion the Daily Beat . South of the railway I went less fre¬ 
quently, but I give my observations there in order to show how 
cautious one must be in applying to regions of a wider limit 
conclusions drawn from conditions obtaining in a single local¬ 
ity. I trust that my observations will not be misinterpreted 
to mean that in the following pages I have represented the con¬ 
dition of things for the whole of Outagamie county. The re- 
