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visit us in small minibers, generally after their breeding season 

 is over. In this group may also be placed the Shearwaters and 

 Petrels, some of which are known to nest in the Antarctic Regions 

 during our winter. In the spring they migrate northward and 

 pass the summer off our coasts. 



List of Summer J'isitaiits. 



Gull-billed Tern. American Egret. 



Royal Tern. Little Blue Heron. 



Forster's Tern. Wilson's Plover. 



Sooty Tern. Oyster-catcher. 



Black Skimmer. Turkey Vulture. 



Greater Shearwater. Red-bellied Woodpecker. 



Audubon's Shearwater. Summer Tanager. 



Sooty Shearwater. Carolina Chickadee. 



Wilson's Petrel. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. 



Mockingbird. 



IV. Winter Residents. — Winter residents, like summer resi- 

 dents, may arrive long before and remain long after the season 

 which gives them their name. Our Junco, or Snowbird, for 

 example, comes from the north in September and remains until 

 April, but is a typical winter resident. That is. it arrives in the 

 fall and after passing the entire winter with us returns to its 

 more northern summer home in the spring. 



List of IJ^inter Residents. 



Holboell's Grebe. Rough-legged Hawk. 



Horned Grebe. Saw-whet Owl. 



Locn. Horned Lark. 



Red-throated Loon, Prairie Horned Lark. 



Razor-billed Auk. American Crossbill. 



Kittiwake Gull. Redpoll. 

 Glaucous Gull. • Pine Siskin. 



Great Black-backed Gull. Snowflake. 



Herring Gull. Lapland Longspur. 



Ring-billed Gull. Ipswich Sparrow. 



Green-winged Teal. White-throated Sparrow. 



American Golden-eye. Tree Sparrow. 



Buffle-head. Junco. 



Old-Squaw. Northern Shrike. 



King Eider. Myrtle Warbler. 



American Scoter. Winter Wren. 



White-winged Scoter. Brown Creeper. 



Surf Scoter. Canadian Nuthatch. 



Purple Sandpiper. Golden-crowned Kinglet. 



V. Winter Visitants. — \\^inter visitants are birds which may 

 or may not visit us during the winter. As a rule, their presence 



