Field notes, v1472
Page 337
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Marshall 1944 General Aest Springfield Mo. April Other birds seen: Nighthawk, Horned Lark, Jay, Chukada, Ruby-cr. Knight (at hospital April 11 or 12), Warbling Vireo? May 24 Park and County east of town: in addition to those listed previously: yellow-billed cuckoo, Crested Flycatcher, Phoebe bridge Trail Flycatcher willows Perce, Crows (woods edge forms), & Dickissel fields along highway) May 9 Tri SW Lawrence, Douglas Co., Kansas This area consist of wide flat fields with central meandering stream heavily lined with trees and low flat ridges - 50 + ft high with very gradual slopes and heavily wooded. See Catalog for places where specimens taken. Along W slope of ridge when woods petered out into sparse trees and then orchards were where most birds were - everything imaginable and in great numbers and profusion.) Great mixed flocks of migrating sparrows (Harris, Clay-colored, with Chipping).