4 proceedings of the naturae [March, 1885. 
2. A list of the Coleoptera of Wisconsin, with notes, by Fr. 
Rauterberg. 
3. “ On Some New Genera and Species of the Family Attidae 
from Madagascar and Central America,” by G. W. and E. G. 
Peckham. 
New members elected: Dr. .J. J. Davies, of Racine ; Dr. C. J. 
Roehr, A. H. Schattenberg, Julius Lando, and K. E. Teller. 
MAN’S INFLUENCE ON THE AVIFAUNA OF SOUTHEASTERN 
WISCONSIN. 
By Dr. P. R. Hoy. 
For eight or ten years, counting from 1845, Racine was the 
ornithologist’s “happy hunting-ground.” Then the primitive 
forest occupied the country on the north and for a short distance 
south, and on the west approached the high rolling prairie, in¬ 
terspersed with groves, skirted by thickets of scrub-oak, dog- 
wood, hazel, etc. 
Racine is situated on a projection of land on the west shore 
of Lake Michigan, six miles further east than Milwaukee and 
two and a half miles further east than Ivenosha. Migrating 
birds make this point a kind of rendezvous, and are followed by 
a host of rapacious birds, such as hawks and owls. Here south¬ 
ern birds come further north in summer, while northern birds 
come further south in winter than they do east of the great 
lakes ; hence there is an overlapping of two distinct faunas, 
the arctic and southern. 
The physical conditions sufficiently account for the grea 
number of birds that visit this section. I call attention briefl 
to a few of the more remarkable changes that have taken plac 
within the last thirty-nine years, since I began studying th 
birds of southeastern Wisconsin. 
Hawks are not one-twentieth as numerous as they were, am 
m fact, some specues have entirely deserted this section. Th 
Swallow-tailed Hawk (Nauderus furcate) was once commo. 
