Volume 24 — VI. BIRD CALENDAR FOR THE REGION OF THE MANDAN VILLAGES, IN THE WINTER OF 1833-34[274]
Hannibal Evans Lloyd translation
VI. BIRD CALENDAR FOR THE REGION OF THE MANDAN VILLAGES, IN THE WINTER OF 1833-34[274]
October
Beginning. Residents: Cathartes septentrionalis;[275] Aquila leucocephala; Falco sparverius; strix virginiana, asio; Corvus corax, americanus audub.; Pica hudsonica; Lanius septentrionalis; Alcedo alcyon; Quiscalus versicolor; Parus atricapillus; Sturnella ludoviciana; Picus villosus, pubescens; Tetrao phasianellus; Tringa; Totanus; Anas boschas fera, crecca, discors; Fulica americana.[276]
Middle. Residents: Same as above. Some of the following begin to migrate: Cathartes; Falcones; Corvus amer.; Alcedo; Quiscalus; Sturnella; Fringilla erythrophthalma; Fulica; Tringa; Totanus (even earlier); Pelecanus trachyrynchos lath.;[277] grus, and recurvirostra.
Migrants: Quiscalus vers.; Sturnella; Anser hyperboreus, canadensis; all species of Mergus and Anas, among them Anas sponsa;[278] likewise Pelecanus.
Birds of passage: Turdus migrat.; Grus, both species; Pelecanus.
End. Residents: Tetrao phasian.; Corvus corax; Pica huds.; Picus pubesc., villosus; Parus atricap.; Aquila leucoc.; Alcedo alcyon (now migrating).
Migrants: Quiscalus, solitary; Anser canad.; Ansas boschas, crecca, discors; Cygnus; Mergus; Fringilla linaria, including unfamiliar species.
November
Beginning. Residents: Strix virgin., asio; Corvus corax; Pica huds.; Tetrao phasian.; Lanius septentr.
Migrants: Aquila leucoc.; Anas; Mergus; Cygnus; Anser.
Middle. Residents: Same as in beginning of month.
Migrants: Fring. linaria; Emberiza nivalis; Bombycilla garrula.
End. Residents: As above.
Migrants: As in the middle of the month.
December
Beginning. Residents: As above.
Migrants: As in end of November; Bombycilla garrula.
Middle. Same as in beginning of month.
End. Same as in middle of month.
January
Same as in December; finches and buntings no longer occur.
February
Beginning. Same as in January; no finches or snow buntings.
Middle. Residents: Fring. linaria; Ember. nivalis in small finches and snow buntings often very numerous.
March
Beginning. Same as in February.
Middle. Residents: Same as in the winter.
Migrants: Ember. nivalis; Fring. linaria.
Birds of passage: Anas boschas. The first ducks were seen on the thirteenth of March; they were flying up the Missouri. On the fourteenth the first prairie hen (Tetrao phasian.) called. On the fifteenth a small flock of gray finches (Fring. canad.?) appeared; and on the sixteenth the first swan. Ducks now appear daily.