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served at this station up to date. The 
first date is when first bird was seen, 
the second when the species became 
common. 
Shore Lark, Feb. 22—Feb. 22. 
Robin, March 19—March 26. 
Bluebird, March 19—March 24. 
Black Snowbird, March 2o~March 26. 
Red-tailed Hawk, March 20. 
Marsh Hawk, March 25. 
Meadow Lark, March 26—A])ril 6. 
\A' hite-rumped Shrike,March 26—do 28. 
Duck Hawk, March 27. 
Swallow-tailed Kite, March 27. 
Yellow-sTiafted Flicker,March 3i-Apr 19 
Cooper’s Hawk, April 2. 
Common Pewee, April 2—April 8. 
Mourning Dove, April 4—April ii. 
Bronzed Crackle, April 8—April 9. 
Spotted Sandpiper, April 3—April 4. 
Killdeer Plover, April 4. 
Rough-legged Hawk, April 4. 
Blue-winged Teal, April 8. 
Wood Duck, April 8, 
Purple Finch, April 9. 
Red-&-buff-sh’rd Brkbird,Apr.9-do 15 
White-crowned Sparrow, April 9. 
Kingfisher, April 10. 
Chipping Sparrow, April ic—April 12. 
Passenger Pigeon, April ii. 
Russet-backed Thrush, April ii. 
Wood Thrush, April ii—April 20. 
Purple Martin, April 13—April 14. 
Herring Gull, April 14. 
Thick-billed Grebe, April 15—do 16. 
Chewink, April 17. 
Purple Crackle, April 17. 
Cowbird, April 17—April 20. 
American Coot, April 20. 
Brown Thrush, April 24—April 29. 
Where a space is left vacant in the 
column of common dates, it is either 
meant that the bird is not common or 
that it does not remain here to breed. 
G. H. Selover, 
April 29. Lake City, Minn. 
Thinking that it might be of interest 
to the readers of the Companion, I sub¬ 
mit below a list of the arrivals taken to 
date, for the Department of Economic 
Ornithology, under Prof. Reily, Dept, 
of Ag., Washington. 
Feb. 14th.—Yellow-shafted Flicker, 
flock of 8 ; Red-headed Woodpecker. 
Feb. 19th.-—Purple Crackle. 
March nth.—American Robin. 
March 15 th.—Red-and-buff-shoulder- 
ed Blackbird. 
April ist.—Chipping Sparrow, Spot¬ 
ted Sandpiper. 
April loth.—Mourning Dove. 
April nth.—Pewee, Wood Pewee, 
Killdeer, Belted Kingfisher, Little Blue 
Heron. 
April 18th—Brown Thrasher, Black- 
throat Bunting, Red-eyed Vireo, Che¬ 
wink, Tuikey Buzzard. 
April 20th.—Barn Swallow. 
April 22nd.—White-throat Sparrow. 
April 23rd.—American Goldfinch. 
April 25th.—Bank Swallow, Chimney 
Swift, Cedarbird. 
April 29th.—Baltimore Oriole. 
April 30th.—House Wren. 
May 2nd.—While-bellied Swallow. 
May 4th.—Maiyland Yellow-throat, 
Catbird. 
May 5th.—Kingbird. 
The Black Snowbird departed for the 
North on April nth, and the Tree Spar¬ 
row on the 25th. Should like to hear 
from others who have taken observations 
in south-east Pennsylvania. 
Warren Carter, Wallingford, Pa. 
It was our intention to have two more 
illustrated articles in this numbei, one 
on entomology and the other on archae¬ 
ology, but we could not get the cuts in 
time. We have one illustrated article, 
however. No. 12 will be illustrated. 
