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had it mounted and found that it had died of an infection in the wing 
where it had been shot. 
March 4—Killdeer, Flicker. 
March 5—Red-winged Blackbird. 
March 10—Goldfinch, Golden-eye Duck, Ring-necked Duck, Purple 
Martin. We saw this Martin as it was flying over but the majority 
arrived about May 6. On the tenth of March, a Prairie Horned Lark’s 
nest containing three eggs was found. ‘lhe temperature was only five 
degrees but on the twenty-third two were hatched. On the twenty-ninth 
one of the young birds had been killed and the other had apparently been 
deserted. 
March 15—Bronzed Grackle. 
March 17—Migrant Shrike, Canada Goose, Hooded Merganser. 
March 18—Lesser Scaup Duck, Coot. 
March 20—Black-crowned Night Heron, Pintail, Cooper’s Hawk, 
Red-shouldered Hawk. 
March 21—Pied-billed Grebe. 
March 24—Green-winged Teal. 
March 26—Saw-whet Owl. 
From the twenty-eighth to the thirty-first, an overnight hike was 
taken. ‘The first night a Saw-whet Owl was heard. The next night we 
were greatly surprised at hearing what we took to be a Nighthawk. We 
rushed to the edge of the little woods which bordered some low ground 
and a scrubby growth of hawthorne. It was nearly dark. Suddenly a 
Woodcock rushed over with a whistling of wings and uttered the familiar 
“peent”’ of the Nighthawk. ‘These notes were usually uttered on the 
ground. Having repeated them several times he left the ground and 
started a large spiral flight upward. A series of notes similar to those of 
the Lapland Longspur continue throughout the flight. We estimated his 
mount to be from two to three hundred feet at the top of which he uttered 
a few lower notes and then dropped suddenly downward. This performance 
was repeated over and over. “here were at least two doing it successively 
and at about midnight the “peent, peent”? was heard again so it may con- 
tinue throughout the night.: The moon shone only occasionally and irregu- 
larly. This was March 29 but on May 3 the performance was still being 
carried on. [hey may have nested as we saw them through May, June, 
and July. che Woodcock was seen from March 29 to October 20. 
March 30—American Bittern, Red-tailed Hawk, Lesser Yellow-legs, 
Mourning Dove, Cowbird, Fox Sparrow. 
March 31—Phoebe, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Towhee. 
April 2—Redheaded Woodpecker. 
April 3—Hermit Thrush. 
April 4—Purple Finch, Savannah Sparrow, Vesper Sparrow, Field 
Sparrow. 
April 7—-Wilson Snipe, Spotted Sandpiper, Wood Pewee, Red- 
