122 Grundtvig—On the Birds of Shiocton, Wisconsin. 
females were seen in company. Flocks May 3 and 8. The 9th 
a female seen spying about in the edge of the Pine Wood. 
Flocks again May 26. 28th, in the morning, four together 
near the house. In the afternoon a female was seen that looked 
into one of our bird houses where a Tachycineta bicolor had a 
nest containing two eggs. One of the swallows sat on a perch 
near the hole, but it was uneasy, and occasionally forsook 
its place angrily to attack the cowbird; so the latter seized 
a favorable instant to alight on the roof of the bird house 
and then on the perch. Many times she stuck her head into 
the hole, but found it too small. She kept near the bird 
house an hour or more, but at last disappeared without having 
had the opportunity of giving the swallow the promised present. 
May 29 an egg was found in an open nest of Melospiza fasciata 
with four eggs of the latter. All the eggs were nearly ready 
to hatch. The nest was in a clump of ferns. Flocks seen daily 
from May 29 to June 1. Afterwards June 8, 10, 12 and 13. 
June 18 found an egg in a nest of Vireo olivaceus with three of 
the latter’s. All the eggs slightly incubated. Nest in a bush, 
three feet from the ground. M. of three eggs. L. 18-23. B. 
14-17. July 19 I saw from the house thousands of young swal¬ 
lows (Tachycineta bicolor) and among them five young cow- 
birds. 
95. Xanthoceplialiis xantlioceplialus (Bonap.). M. of $ 
shot in Shioc Meadows, May 28, 1882. L. 252. E. 411. W. 
138. T. 87. Saw no more. Breeds in Green Lake county 
(Cooke). 
96. Agelaius plioeniceus (Linn.). XX M. $ (2) L. 213- 
219. E. 373-387. W. 119-123. T. 93-97. $ L. 194. E. 
330. W. 105. T. 78. March 28, 1882, saw 6 and 3 in two 
different places. The day after very abundant. In autumn 
vast flocks on September 22. Not uncommon still, October 14. 
Hardly seen later. Some few April 4, 1883. In great abund¬ 
ance the 9th. Breeds in many wet places, but the most—sev¬ 
eral hundred pairs—have nests in Shioc Meadows. In 1882, when 
the water was high throughout May, most of them built in 
bushes from 1|- to 4 feet above the water. In 1883, when the 
water retreated from Shioc Meadows in the middle of May, most 
