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species. A single first date or peak date or last date will be useful, even if 
numbers observed and other dates are not available. Dates on which num- 
bers of a species suddenly increase or decrease will also be helpful. As in 
spring, the more numbers reporting from a given area, the better. 
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Field Notes,” or to Mr. Chandler S. Robbins, Patuxent Research Refuge, 
Laurel, Maryland. For additional information or report forms, write to me 
at the address below. 
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Bird Records from Tri-Cities =a 
By PETER C. PETERSEN, JR. 
WHILE THE SPRING and summer at Tri-Cities have brought only a few 
rarities, they have provided some unusual nesting records. Here are the 
outstanding ones: 
Hooded Merganser: Female and three young in Dead Slough, near mouth 
of Rock river, Rock Island county. The young were about three-fourths 
grown, capable of flight. Seen from canoe, distance about 30 feet, 8X bi- 
noculars. July 24. 
Mallard Ducks: two pairs seen at Lock #13 on Mississippi river, August 
4. Not certain whether these were nesters or early migrants. Mallards are 
common enough in spring and fall, but rarely seen here in midsummer. 
Bank Swallows: nesting colony of 500 plus near Fulton, Whiteside county. 
The banks are soft and easy to dig; holes go back four to six feet. There 
are also colonies of 100 to 200 swallows at Cordova Quarry, Savanna, and 
Rock Island, in Carroll and Rock Island counties. 
Dowitcher: one seen at Spring Lake, Carroll county, August 4. 
Ring-Biiled Gulls: three seen at Lock #13 on August 4. Again, an unusual 
time for seeing this species. 
Eastern Kingbird: nest found near highway at Spring Lake, August 4. 
Contained three young, one or two days old. The nest was very noticeable, 
about six feet high in a small tree less than 20 feet from the highway. 
Bell’s Vireo: nest found at Cordova Quarry, July 24, by Doug Baily and 
myself. It contained three eggs. On July 28 the young appeared to be one 
or two days old; on August 4, they had feathers half out of the quill. The 
nest was three feet high in a box elder. 
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