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large old pear trees. During the ten years 

 that I have studied birds, from 191 1 to 1921, 

 I have seen 101 species of birds, either on 

 the acre or flying over it, and have known 

 twenty species to nest on it. The following 

 is a list of them: 



Common Tern (overhead), Herring (lull 

 (overhead), Canada Goose (overhead), Black- 

 crowned Night Heron (overhead), Woodcock, 

 Bob-White. Mourning Dove, Sharp-shinned 

 Hawk, Cooper's Hawk, Osprey (overhead), 

 Screech Owl (nested), Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 

 Black-billed Cuckoo. Belted Kingfisher 

 (overhead), Hairy Woodpecker, Downy 

 Woodpecker, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, 

 Flicker (nested). Whip-poor-will, Nighthawk, 

 Chimney Swift, Ruby-throated Humming- 

 bird (nested), Kingbird (nested), Crested 

 Flycatcher (nested), Phcebe, Wood Pewee, 

 Least Flycatcher, Blue Jay, Crow, Starling 

 (nested), Cowbird, Red-winged Blackbird, 

 Meadowlark, Orchard Oriole (nested), Balti- 

 more Oriole (nested), Rusty Blackbird, 

 Purple Grack'.e (nested), Purple Finch. 

 White-winged (?) Crossbill (bird flew, recog- 

 nized by note), Goldfinch, Pine Finch, 

 English Sparrow (nested), Vesper Sparrow, 

 White-crowned Sparrow, White-throated 

 Sparrow, Tree Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow 

 (nested), Junco, Song Sparrow (nested), 

 Swamp Sparrow, Fox Sparrow, Towhee, 

 Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Scarlet Tanager, 

 Barn Swallow, Tree Swallow (overhead), 

 Cedar Waxwing (nested), Migrant Shrike, 

 Red-eyed Vireo (nested), Warbling Vireo, 

 Blue-headed Vireo, White-eyed Vireo, Black- 

 and-White Warbler, Blue-winged Warbler, 

 Nashville Warbler, Tennessee Warbler, 

 Parula Warbler, Cape May Warbler, Yellow 

 Warbler (nested), Black-throated Blue War- 

 bler, Myrtle Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, 

 Chestnut-sided Warbler, Bay-breasted War- 

 bler, Blackburnian Warbler, Blackpoll War- 

 bler, Black-throated Green Warbler, Palm 

 Warbler, Yellow Palm Warbler, Prairie 

 Warbler, Ovenbird, Northern Water-thrush, 

 Maryland Yellowthroat, Wilson's Warbler, 

 Canadian Warbler, Redstart, Catbird 

 (nested), Brown Thrasher (nested), House 

 Wren (nested — only known nesting record 

 in township), Winter Wren, Brown Creeper, 

 White-breasted Nuthatch, Red-breasted Nut- 



hatch, Black-capped Chickadee, Golden- 

 crowned Kinglet, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 

 Wilson's Thrush, Olive-backed Thrush, 

 Hermit Thrush, Robin (nested), Bluebird 

 (nested). 



The following birds have taken food pro- 

 vided for them at our back door or on 

 window-sill and arbor. 



Downy Woodpecker, Starling, English 

 Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, Tree 

 Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow, Junco, Song 

 Sparrow, Catbird, White-breasted Nut- 

 hatch, Chickadee. — Mabel R. Wiggins, 

 East Marion, L. /., N. Y. 



The Birds of an Elm 



Twenty-five feet from our south windows 

 there grows an elm which is rather large and 

 tall. So many birds come to our trees, and 

 particularly to this elm, that in June, 1920, 

 I decided to make a list of all the birds I 

 should see. in the tree in a year, beginning 

 June 5, just after the spring migration. On 

 our lawn are two other elms and two maples, 

 but more birds seem to come to the south 

 elm than to the other trees, and I hoped to 

 list fifty kinds within the year. 



Our home is on the edge of a small village 

 which is noted for its large numbers of trees. 

 A very small stream, which is often dry in 

 the summer, runs through the village. Very 

 likely the trees and the stream are in a 

 large measure responsible for the fact that 

 many birds may be seen here. We have 

 quite a good many resident, summer, and 

 migratory birds, and a few that come from 

 the North to spend the winter here. 



Beginning June 5, I saw the following 

 named birds in the elm in June: Red- 

 headed Woodpecker, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 

 Robin, English Sparrow, House Wren, King- 

 bird, Bluebird, Bronzed Grackle, Goldfinch, 

 Orchard Oriole, Warbling Vireo, Mourning 

 Dove, Brown Thrasher, and Chipping 

 Sparrow. This makes fourteen on my list 

 for the first month. 



The Dove nested in the tree, that year, 

 and I saw a Warbling Vireo feeding her 

 young on a limb of the tree, but did not find 

 her nest. Robins nest in the tree every year. 



In July my list showed only four addi- 



