NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF CHAPEL HILL, N. .C, 



WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO 



THEIR MIGRATIONS. 



By Alexander L. Feild. 



The material from which these notes are derived was gath- 

 ered during my four undergraduate years at the University of 

 North Carolina at Chapel Hill,— Sept. 1907 to June 1911. 

 Since the migrating birds occur in the spring and autumn 

 months, I was able to obtain tolerably complete records for the 

 entire time. I made no observations during the three vacation 

 months of June, July and August. A considerable amount of 

 my spare, time, however, during the school year was devoted 

 to a study of the birds found in this region. The total number 

 of species positively identified was one hundred and seven. Of 

 this number twenty-nine are known to remain here all through 

 the year and are therefore called permanent residents. Eleven 

 are transient visitors, — birds which during the spring and fall 

 migrations remain here for only a few days or weeks. Twenty 

 are winter residents, which are birds that breed further north- 

 ward but spend the winter in this locality. Thirty-three occur 

 only in the summer, coming here to breed after their winter 

 residence in the southern United States or the tropics. The 

 remaining fourteen species are of doubtful classification. 



I have added five new species to the hitherto catalogued 

 species of Chapel Hill. They are the Red-tailed Hawk {Buteo 

 horealis horealis), Red-cockaded Woodpecker {Dryohates hore- 

 alis), Pine Siskin (Spinus pinus), Cape May Warbler (Den- 

 droica tigrina), Kentucky Warbler (Oporornis formosus) . 



In 1899 Mr. T. G. Pearson published in this Journal (Vol. 

 XVIj Part I) a '' Preliminary Catalogue of the Birds of 

 Chapel Hill, N. C, with Brief Notes on Some of the Species." 

 One hundred and thirty-four species are included in this cata- 

 logue, one hundred and nineteen of which actually came under 

 his notice. About all of the remaining seventeen species had 

 been recorded previously by Prof. G. F. Atkinson. The latter 



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