EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT: 181 
thus hatched and reared within the confines of Bird Valley would 
be perfect as to plumage, tame, and absolutely contented with 
their life in our great Zoological Park. 
BIRDS OBSERVED 
ON OR NEAR COBB ISLAND, VIRGINIA. 
Horned Grebe. 
Loon. 
Red-Throated Loon. 
Razor-Billed Auk. 
Herring Gull. 
Ring-Billed Gull. 
Bonaparte Gull. 
Caspian Tern. 
Royal Tern (“Gannet’’). 
Roseate Tern. 
Black Tern. 
Gannet. 
Double-Crested Cormorant. 
Brown Pelican. 
Red-Breasted Merganser. 
Mallard Duck. 
Black Duck. 
Baldpate. 
Green-Winged Teal. 
Blue-Winged Teal. 
Shoveller Duck. 
Pintail. 
Red Head. 
Canvasback Duck. 
Scaup Duck. 
Lesser Scaup Duck. 
Golden-Eye Duck. 
Buffle-Head Duck. 
Long-Tail Duck. 
King Eider Duck. 
American Scoter. 
White-Winged Scoter. 
Surf Scoter. 
Ruddy Duck. 
Snow Goose. 
Canada Goose. 
Hutchins’ Goose. 
Brant Goose. 
Black Brant Goose. 
Whistling Swan. 
American Bittern. 
Least Bittern. 
Snowy Heron. 
Louisiana Heron. 
Green Heron. 
Black-Crowned Night Heron. 
Yellow-Crowned Night Heron. 
Sora Rail. 
Florida Gallinule. 
American Coot. 
Northern Phalarope. 
Knot. 
Pectoral Sandpiper. 
Least Sandpiper. 
Red-Backed Sandpiper. 
Semipalmated Sandpiper. 
Sanderling. 
Hudsonian Godwit. 
Greater Yellow-Legs. 
Bartramian Sandpiper. 
Eskimo Curlew. 
Black-Bellied Plover. 
American Golden Plover. 
Semipalmated Plover. 
Piping Plover. 
Turnstone. 
Marsh Hawk. 
Bald Eagle. 
Duck Hawk. 
Pigeon Hawk. 
Barn Owl. 
Short-Eared Owl. 
Saw-Whet Owl. 
Snowy Owl. 
Chuck-Will’s- Widow. 
Scissor-Tail Flycatcher. 
Horned Lark. 
American Raven. 
Fish Crow 
Boat-Tailed Grackle. 
Snow Bunting. 
Ipswich Sparrow. 
Savanna Sparrow. 
Sharp-Tailed Finch. 
Prothonotary Warbler. 
Connecticut Warbler. 
