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11. Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker, 2. 



12. Red-headed Woodpecker, 2. 



13. Flicker, 15. 



14. Chimney Swift, 10. 



15. Crested Flycatcher, 1. 



16. Phoebe, 3. 



17. Least Flycatcher, 1. 

 IS. American Crow, 6. 



19. Bobolink, 6. 



20. Cowbird, 3. 



21. Red-winged Blackbird, 10. 



22. Meadowlark, 8. 



23. Baltimore Oriole, 2. 



24. Bronzed Grackle, 5. 



25. American Goldfinch, 3. 



26. Vesper Sparrow, 1. 



27. White-throated Sparrow, 15. 



28. Chipping Sparrow, 3. 



29. Field Sparrow, 10. 



30. Slate-colored Junco, 3. 



31. Song Sparrow, 15. 



32. Towhee, 10. 



33. Cardinal, 3. 



34. Rose-breasted Grosbeak, 8. 



35. Barn Swallow, 10. 



36. Rough-winged Swallow, 2. 



37. Red-eyed Virea, 1. 



38. Yellow-throated Vireo, 4. 



39. Black and White Warbler, 5. 



40. Worm-eating Warbler, 2. 



41. Golden-winged Warbler, 3. 



42. Nashville Warbler, 3. 



43. Yellow Warbler, 8. 



44. Myrtle Warbler, 4. 



45. Cerulean Warbler, 20. 



46. Blackburnian Warbler, 1. 



47. Black-throated Green Warbler, 1. 



48. Yellow Palm Warbler, 1. 



49. Oven-bird, 10. 



50. Water Thrush, 1. 



51. Louisiana Water Thrush, 1. 



52. Maryland Yellowthroat, 1. 



53. American Redstart, 8. 



54. Catbird, 5. 



55. Brown Thrasher, 2. 



56. Carolina Wren, 1. 



57. House Wren. 



58. Brown Creeper, 2. 



59. White-breasted Nuthatch. 2. 



60. Tufted Titmouse, 1. 



61. Chickadee, 1. 



62. Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 1. 



63. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, 4. 



64. Veery, 2. 



65. Wood Thrush, 8. 



66. American Robin, 15. 



Thos. D. Burleigh. 



Philadelphia Bird Notes. 



A heavy wind-storm swept over 

 Philadelphia on the evening of April 

 2, 1912, uprooted "Old Baldy," a big 

 oak tree in Independence Square, 

 which was more than a hundred and 

 fifty years old. It received this name 

 from the famous Bald Eagle which 

 was owned by Charles Wilson Peale, 

 the artist, when he had a museum in 

 Independence Hall. He kept the Eagle 

 in a cage built around the tree which 

 at that time was even of large size and 

 beauty. It is now mounted in the hall 

 museum where it is admired annually 

 by thousands of visitors. 



It was the custom to bring the chil- 

 dren to the Square to see Old Baldy, 

 the Eagle, and it was probably the first 

 attempt of a zoo in the country. The 

 big tree was chopped up and people 

 carried off chips of the wood as relics 

 of Old Baldy, the tree, and as me- 

 mento of Old Baldy, the Eagle. The 

 tree is reported to be one of the last 

 left in the Square which stood there 

 when the Declaration of Independence 

 was read. 



According to the Rittenhouse broth- 

 ers, Wild Turkeys and many Pheas- 

 ants or Ruffed Grouse, were killed on 

 the Wissachicken Creek, as late as 

 1845. The Grouse occurred much lat- 

 er and bred on the wooded ridges. 

 Philadelphia is now the only one of 

 the 67 counties of Pennsylvania in 

 which the Ruffed Grouse is not found, 

 on account of its small size and dense 

 population. 



The State Game Commissioner has 



