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THE OOLOGIST. 



Birds Observed in a Single Day. 



Birds seen and heard on a trip from 

 Grand Rapids, Kent County, to Jenni- 

 sonville, Ottawa County, Mich., by 

 team, and a ramble in the woods and 

 fields. All kinds of Territory,— Hard 

 wood, piDery, fields, orchards and low- 

 lands. 



Time of trip— 4:30 a. m. to 8 p. m., 

 May 8, '79. 



Distance covered, there and return, 

 and walks— about 32 miles. 



Weather perfect. Birds observed, 88 

 species. 



Note.— This is the largest number of 

 species of birds that I have recorded in 

 a single day's trip, and more than I 

 have coted in a month of observations 

 in many months in recent years. 



Species found breeding, marked * 



American Bittern. 



Great Blue Heron, * 



Woodcock, 



Field Plover, 



Spotted Sandpiper, 



Killdeer Plover, * 



Bob White, 



Ruffed Grouse, 



Wild Pigeon, 



Mourning Dove, 



Marsh Hawk, 



Cooper's Hawk, 



Red-tailed Hawk, 



Red-shouldered Hawk, 



Sparrow Hawk, 



Barred Owl, 



Kingfisher, * 



Hairy Woodpecker, 



Red-head Woodpecker, * 



Gold-wing Woodpecker, 



Nighthawk, 



Chimney Swift, 



Humming Bird, 



Kingbird, 



Great-crested Flycatcher, 



Phebe, * 



Wood Pewee, 



Least Flycatcher, 



Prairie Horned Lark, 



Blue Jay, * 



Crow, * 



Bobolink, 



Cowbird, 



Red-wing Blackbird, * 



Meadow Lark, 



Orchard Oriole, 



Baltimore Oriole, 



Bronzed Grackle, * 



Goldfinch, 



Grass Finch, 



White-crowned Sparrow, 



White-throated Sparrow, 



Chipping Sparrow, * 



Field Sparrow, 



Song Sparrow, 



Towhee, * 



Rose- breasted Grosbeak, 



Indigo Bunting, 



Scarlet Tanager. 



Eave Swallow, * 



Barn Swallow, * 



Bank Swallow, 



Blue-back Swallow, 



Wbite-rumped Shrike, 



Red-eyed Vireo, 



Warbling Vireo, 



Yellow-throated Vireo, 



Solitary Vireo, 



Black and White Creeper, 



Golden-wing Warbler, 



Nashville Warbler, 



Blue Yellow-back Warbler, 



Yellow Warblur, 



B'ack-throated Blue Warbler, 



Chestnut-sided Warbler, 



Blackburnian Warbler, 



Black-throated Green Warbler, 



Prairie Warbler, 



Oven Bird, 



Large billed Water Thrush, 



Mourning Warbler, 



Marvland Yellow-throat. 



Hooded Warbler, 



Canadian Warbler. 



American Redstart, 



Catbird, * 



Brown Thrush, 



House Wren, 



Brown Creeper. 



White-breasted Nuthatch, 



Black-capped Chickadee. 



Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher, 



Wood Thrush, 



Wilson's Thrush, 



Swainson's Thrush, 



Hermit Thrush, 



Robin, * 



Bluebird. 



M. Gibbs, Kalamazoo, Mich. 



