. The birds of Indiana; a descriptive catalog of the birds that have been observed within the state, with an account of their habits. Birds. 740 Rei'oet of State Geologist. Length, ; wing, ; tail, ; culmen, .; tarsus, Range.—America, from Columbia and West Indies north to Mani- toba and Newfoundland. Breeds throughout its North American range. Winters in southern Illinois and southern Indiana and Vir- ginia southward. Nest, on ground. Eggs, 4; buffy-white, with chocolate markings, principally at the larger end; by Common summer resident.
. The birds of Indiana; a descriptive catalog of the birds that have been observed within the state, with an account of their habits. Birds. 740 Rei'oet of State Geologist. Length, ; wing, ; tail, ; culmen, .; tarsus, Range.—America, from Columbia and West Indies north to Mani- toba and Newfoundland. Breeds throughout its North American range. Winters in southern Illinois and southern Indiana and Vir- ginia southward. Nest, on ground. Eggs, 4; buffy-white, with chocolate markings, principally at the larger end; by Common summer resident. Resident in greater or less numbers, some winters, in the southern part of the State. Often, over a good part of the State, they are not absent more than two months. The. Killdeer. bulk of them spend their winters along the Gulf of Mexico. Every- where it is the earliest and best known of its family to arrive. In the Whitewater Valley, some winters, it remains; others, it leaves for a few weeks in December. The following give the date it was first seen each year at Brookville: 1881, February 15; 1884, March 12; 1886, March 14; 1887, March 6; 1889, February 16; 1890, February 15; 1893, March 3; 1895, March 22. In Knox County Mr. E. J. Chansler says it is resident, some seasons common, others rare. Some years it is found,as early as February over almost the entire State. The following dates of first appearance north of the latitude of In- dianapolis are taken from years of early spring migrations: Lafayette, February 26, 1889 (Test); 1894 and 1896 were early years. The for- m^er they were noted as follows: Laporte, March 3 (Barber); Sedan, Dekalb County, March 2 (Mrs. Hine); Plymouth, Mich., March 4 (Alexander); Sandusky, 0., March 4 (Moseley); Chicago, 111., Maxch 10 (Dunn). The latter year at the following places: Camden, Feb- ruary 28 (Sterling); North Manchester (Bell), Waterloo (Mrs. Hine),. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may hav
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