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nishes food and attraction for many birds, and consequently their animal 

 subsistence is greater. Birds of the plains here find a home in the sum- 

 mer; birds of the north here find their food in the winter; birds of the 

 warm tropical south follow their food, the insects, here in the spring; 

 birds from all parts of America are residents here at some season of the 

 year, and their number is not greater in summer than in winter, but the 

 number of species is larger. Of the birds that I have shot in Jackson 

 county, the following are not generally known, yet are very common at 

 some season of the year — at least most of them. You may not see them 

 yet they make themselves known by their voluble strains, and tender 

 earnest songs. This list includes a number of summer residents, who 

 come here year after year to build their nests and rear their young, 

 whose food is principally insects, but one of this group being granivorous. 

 A lesser number of migratory individuals, who are to be seen and heard 

 in our borders, the first half of May and the last weeks in September, 

 whose sole food is insects, which necessitates their migrating to latitudes 

 where their prey abounds. There are included two winter visitors, who 

 serve to break the dull, dreary, monotonous winter weather, by their 

 lively chirping and sprightly ways. One individual is a permanent resi- 

 dent, and may be found at any time of the year. 



Beginning with the summer residents, we may as well head the 

 list with that perfect little beauty of a creature, the Golden Warbler. 



PROTONOTARIA CITRIA (Golden Warbler). 



A beautiful little creature, inhabiting shrubbery, very common in 

 spring and early summer, but not visible later in the season; certainly 

 nesting here, as we collected the eggs of this species last season, and this 

 season we found one nest in a hole in a cottonwood snag, which was 

 afloat in a little lake near Courtney. 



SEINRUS NOVEBORACENSIS (New York Water-Thrush). 



An inhabitant of low tangled woods near the water, where its 

 quavering pc-a, pe a, is oftener heard than its owner is seen. We have 

 not seen its nest, but as it stays late into the summer, we infer that it 

 does breed here. 



GEOTHLYPIS FORMOSA (Kentucky Warbler). 



In early summer an abundant little warbler in low shrubberies, 

 where it gleams like gold as it flits from bush to bush. Although no 

 pains are taken to conceal their nest, which is a large shallow affair, we 

 have been unsuccessful in finding one. 



