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the rails, oven-birds, and redstarts. The redstarts I had seen 

 only a few of before this year, but they came in flocks to the 

 Pond this year, and lingered for over a week. Of the kinglets 

 I have found the Golden-crowned to be much the rarer, as 

 my list will show. Bobolinks have been more numerous this 

 year than last, and hummingbirds have been very rare. I 

 listed my first one for 1917 on August 8th. 



In the following list of birds identified at or near the Pond 

 during the two months of April and Alay, 1917, an (x) 

 merely indicates that the species was identified that day. 

 Where the species is a new one, or one not so commonly 

 found, or migrants, I have used the initial letter of an ad- 

 jective to indicate the numbers, or in the case of rare species, 

 I have given the number of individuals seen. Nighthawks 

 are not rare, but for some reason I have never been able to 

 see very many. Only the one at the Pond this year. The 

 question mark inclosed in parenthesis (?) indicates that the 

 species is uncertain. Many times my trips to the Pond were 

 made at noon, or at some time when I had to hurry back. 

 At such times I often caught fleeting glimpses of thrushes, 

 swallows, etc., which I did not take the time to hunt the 

 species of. Ag'ain, the swallows were so numerous that I 

 did not bother to list them by individual species after the 

 first three or four. Beyond these explanations I think the 

 list is self-explanatory: 



