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 Wilson's Warblers, Reci-hrcastcd Nuthatch (?) and Olive-hatkcd J'lirusii ; Aug. 17, Mourning Warbler; Aug. 20, Nashville Warbler ; Aug. 21, Philadelphia Vireo; Aug. 22, Black -throated CJreen Warbler; Aug. 23, Blackpoli Warbler; Aug. 25, Purple Fincli, Parula and Black-throated Blue Warblers and Water-Thrush; Aug. 26. Wil- son's Willow and Gray-cheeked Thrushes; Aug. 30, Slate-colored Junco;* Sept. 2, Swamp Sparrow; Sept. 3, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher; Sept. 4, Blue-winged Teal, Spar- row-Hawk (flatter recently added to summer resident list) and Palm Warbler; Sept. 6, Horned Grebe ( ?); Sept. 7, American Coot and Osprey; Sept. 8, Le Conte's Sparrow and Cape May Warbler; Sept. 9, Winter W^ren and Ruby-crowned Kinglet;** Sept. 10, American Golden Plover; Sept. 11, Lincoln's Spanow; Sept. 12, Rusty Blackbird;** Sept. 13, White-throated Sparrow; Sept. 14, Sapsucker and Hermit Thrush; Sept. 15, Brown Creeper;** Sept. 17, Sharp-shinned and Pigeon Hawks, Grinnell's (?) Water Thrush; Sept. 18, Wilson's Snipe and Pine Siskin {?); Sept. 19, Golden-crowned King- let; Sept. 20, Greater Yellow-legs; Sept. 22, Fox Sparrow; Sept. 24, Black-bellied Plo- ver and Lapland Longspur (?) ; * Sept. 25, Mallard, Green-winged Teal and Myrtle Warbler; Sept. 30, American Pipit. Latest dates of departure, for August and September, of transient and summer-resi- dent species, from data collected near (ilen Ellyn, Illinois, during the past eight years : (For migrant species during Feliruary and March, and April and May, see February and April Nos. of Bird-Lore, pp. 27 and 66, respectively.) Aug. 13, Chipping Sparrow ;t Aug. 16, Yellow-breasted Chat;t Aug. 17, Mourn- ing Warbler; Aug. 19, Least Sandpiper and Cerulean Warbler; Aug. 20, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher; Aug. 27, Acadian Flycatcher; Aug. 30, Green Heron; Sept. i. Barn Swallow, White-rumped Shrike, and Blue-winged Yellow Warbler; Sept. 3, Yellow- bellied Flycatcher, Bank Swallow and Wilson's Thrush; Sept. 4, Baltimore Oriole; Sept. 5, Black Tern and Dickcissel ; Sept. 6, Horned Grebe (?), Great Blue Heron, Kingbird and Yellow Warbler; Sept. 7, Osprey; Sept. 8, Tree Swallow and Cape May Warbler; Sept. 10, Cowbird and Warbling Vireo; Sept. 11, Bartramian Sandpiper; Sept. 12, Sparrow Hawk; Sept. 13, Grasshopper Sparrow; Sept. 15, Olive-sided Fly- catcher (?); Sept. 16, King Rail and Eave Swallow; Sept. 17, Grinnell's (?) Water Thrush and Willow Thrush ; Sept. 18, American Woodcock, Yellow-legs and Crested Flycatcher; Sept. 19, Traill's Flycatcher; Sept. 20, Greater Yellow-legs, Scarlet Tanager and Yellow-throated V^ireo; Sept. 21, Wilson's Warbler; Sept. 22, Ruby-throated Hum- mingbird, Indigo Bird, Blackburnian, Connecticut and Canadian Warblers and Wood Thrush; Sept. 23, Wood Pewee and Martin (?) ; Sept. 24, Black-bellied Plover and Least Flycatcher; Sept. 24, Pectoral and Spotted Sandpipers; Cedarbird * * and Golden- winged Warbler; Sept. 26, Henslow's Sparrow and Chestnut-sided Warbler; Sept. 27, Blue-winged Teal ; Rose-breasted Grosbeak; Philadelphia Vireo, Black-and-White and Blackpoli Warblers; Sept. 28, Sharp-shinned Hawk; Sept. 29, Yellow-billed Cuckoo and Chimney Swift; Sept. 30, Ovenbird. OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER BIRD-LIFE AT GLEN ELLYN (NEAR CHICAGO), ILLINOIS Bv Benjamin T. GAUi.r The opening daj's of October are perhaps easily characterized by the marked disappearance of many of our strictly insectivorous birds. A few mav linger still, or until some time after the first fall frosts have set in, vet it is equally apparent to us then that they fail to lend much character
 * RcEular winter visitant. ** Irregular winter visitant. t Doubtless occurred later.