Bird-Lore's Fourteenth Christmas Census 



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HE returns for the Christmas Census 

 of 1913 have exceeded in number 

 those for any previous year; and, both 

 as a means of saving space and of improving 

 the character of the censuses, it has been 

 deemed advisable to publish only the lists 

 which seem more or less adequately to 

 represent the winter bird-life of the locality 

 to which they relate. Many lists have there- 

 fore been rejected under this ruling, while 

 others have been excluded, either because 

 they were received too late for publication 

 or because, in one way or another, they did 

 not conform to the plan of the Census out- 

 lined in Bird-Lore for December. It has, of 

 course, been difficult to know just where to 

 kJMT ' »'''Y \ /' V draw the line, and doubtless some lists have 



^^ WWj I # ' > been excluded which are quite as worthy of 



publication as some which have been re- 

 tained, but, in the absence of time to confer 

 with the author, the editors have been 

 obliged to use their own discretion. 



We have again to thank Mr. Charles H. 

 Rogers for preparing the censuses for pub- 

 lication, as well as for the following introductory note. — F. M. C. 





PINE GROSBEAK 



Photographed by S. S. S. Stansell, 



Manly, Alberta 



INTRODUCTORY NOTE 



This winter's extensive southward movement of Acadian Chickadees is 

 the most striking bit of news in the bird world as revealed by the Christmas 

 Census. This species breeds as far south as nothernmost or mountainous New 

 England and New York, but wanders ordinarily so little in winter that it very 

 rarely reaches even Massachusetts. This winter, however, it has appeared as 

 far south as southern Rhode Island and Connecticut, and Rhinebeck, New 

 York. 



Pine Grosbeaks, Redpolls and the Crossbills have come down in small, 

 numbers through New England, but not farther. Pine Siskins came earlier in 

 much greater numbers and considerably farther south. Northern Shrikes are 

 unusually well distributed, although more than one is rarely seen in a day. 

 Robins, Bluebirds and others that are chiefly summer residents in the north 

 and middle East are, for the most part, scarce. This is the first Christmas when 



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