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11th, nighthawks again, three barn swallows; 13th, one yellow palm warbler; 
22nd, one parula warbler; October 1, one Blackburnian warbler, 20 palm 
and myrtle warblers; 24th, one phoebe; November 1, one pied-billed grebe 
in the lake; 8th, one house wren. Notice the low numbers. The only 
northern species staying in some number are the palm and myrtle warblers, 
of the phoebes and grebes a few. Also a few more shrikes and sparrow 
hawks are along the road, plus little companies of chipping, field and vesper 
sparrows. A marsh hawk may be seen now and then and a pair or two of 
vultures, but not the large aggregations one should expect. 
The island is entirely deserted in daytime; only toward evening little 
straggling bands of egrets and herons fly to it. Even the crows are gone; 
the ibises left in September and return at the end of February and in March. 
To the solitary pied-bill may be added the horned grebe later. 
There are some migratory movements perceptible in winter, as witness 
this little list: November 26, bank swallows; December 18, great blue 
heron; 21st, blue-gray gnatcatcher; 23rd, robins; January 4, more robins; 
14th, Bell’s vireo; 30th, big fiock of kinglets, myrtle and palm warblers; 
February 1, little groups of chipping sparrows; 9th, flocks of cedar wax- 
wings, one prairie warbler (subsp.?); 12th, more gnatcatchers; 27th, big 
flock of myrtle warblers; March 7, a yellow-throated warbler; 10th, a parula 
warbler; 12th, a hummingbird; 17th, a hermit thrush; mostly just one or 
two of a species. 
I have never seen any ducks on our lake, probably due to lack of the 
proper food, but on the lakes in Orlando are many, because they are fed 
there. They are mostly mallards, scaups, ringnecks, black and ruddy ducks. 
With them associate many ring-billed gulls, all of which are so tame that 
they hardly step aside out of one’s way when they are on shore and you 
walk around the lake. 
Windermere, Florida, January, 1944. 
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A RARE VISITOR for the Chicago area was recorded by a dozen or more per- 
sons when several avocets rested from about October 29 to November 5 on 
a shallow pond some 30 miles southeast of the city. Five or six avocets 
(reports differ) were in the flock, which showed no timidity and fed quietly 
when approached within 50 yards. None was collected and the record must 
rest on the identification by competent ornithologists who were among the 
observers. 
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Some Birds of Kauai 
By SEYMouR LEvy 
DURING MY TOUR OF DUTY in the U. S. Marines I have been, due to various 
reasons, in quite a few isolated and remote countries. The island of Kauai, 
located in the Territory of Hawaii, has been quite the hardest place to study 
birds that I have known. Therefore the following is not a complete list of 
