THE NxVTURALISTS' COMPANION. 
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CORRESPONDENCE. 
Editor Naturalists’ Companion. 
You spoke of sending reports of bird 
arrivals in your last issue. I will send 
you mine up to April 4th. 
Feb. nth.—Shore Lark. 
Feb. 13th.—Lapland Longspun 
Maich 14th.—Meadow Lark, Bluebird 
and Killdeer. 
March 17th.—Black Snowbird, Crow 
Blackbird and Great White Egret. 
March i8th.—Red-wing Blackbird, 
Robins and Song Sparrow. 
March 19th.—American Woodcock. 
March 20th.—Pewee Flycatcher, Fox 
Sparrow and Horned Grebe. 
March 27th.—Black-crowned Night 
Heron and Brown Creeper. 
April ist.—Cowbird andWild Pigeon. 
April 2nd.—Hermit Thrush. 
April 3rd.—Mourning Dove and Yel¬ 
low-shafted Flicker. 
G. B. Holmes, Fernwood, Ills. 
While passing along the street, a few 
days since, I noticed a robin hanging- 
head downward from a limb of a tree. 
I at first thought that the bird had been 
injured, and falling from above had 
caught on the limb. On closer inspec¬ 
tion, however, I found that its feet were 
tangled up in thiead which it had been 
carrying to aid in the completion of its 
nest. I climbed up to the limb, and 
reaching out, broke the threads, and 
with a squack, which might have been a 
robin’s thanks, it flew quickly away. 
Alfred G. King, Brockport, N. Y. 
I send you the following notes just as 
I have them down in my note book. 
Feb. 22nd.—First Wild Geese seen 
going north. 
March 9th.—Saw the first Robin this 
spring. 
March ibth.—Blackbirds and Mead¬ 
ow Larks arriving to-day. 
March 24th.—Saw two pair of Kildeer 
Plover to-day. 
April 8th.—Curlews arriving from the 
South. 
April 9th.—Found a Crow’s nest 
quite complete. 
April nth.—Kingfishers arrived to¬ 
day, also a pair of Turtle Doves. Black¬ 
birds have commenced to build their 
nests. Ernest Ostrom, 
Danbury, Iowa. 
The following is a list of the arrivals 
of birds in this vicinity, taken since our 
last report : 
April nth.—White-bellied Swallow, 
and Red-and-buff-shouldered Blackbird. 
April 13th.—Pewee Flycatcher, Rusty 
Blackbird and Snow Sjrarrow. 
April 18th.—Wild Pigeon, Red-head¬ 
ed Woodpecker, Puple Grackie, King¬ 
fisher and White-rumped Shrike. Saw 
first butterflies of the season—grapta 
comma and vanessa antiopa. 
Ye Editor. 
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number of this paper please hand the 
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