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MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



bottom to the wire and looped at the top to the ends of long, flexible garden 

 stakes. When the cat gets a little above the wire her weight causes the tips 

 of the stakes to bend over towards her and she presently finds herself hanging 

 back downward beneath a strip of loose, swaying fabric which affords her no 

 means of further upward progress. If the seine be tarred and kept under cover 

 during the winter it will last a dozen or more years. 



Despite its limited area and the fact that it lies near the heart of a large 

 city, our artificial forest is frequented at one or another .season by a considerable 

 number and variety of birds. It is true that none of the species characteristic 

 of retired woodlands — excepting possibly the Solitary Vireo — have bred in it 

 as yet, but very many of them visit it during migration, as is shown by one of 

 the following lists which include all the species that have been noted at every 

 season during the past five years. 



Birds noted in Our Garden, igoo-igo^. 



Summer (including Permanent) Residents. 



I. Screech Owl. 



Occasionally noted in the breeding season, 

 but not known to have nested actually 

 within the grounds. 



One pair every season ; nest found in 1 904. 



Regularly one pair nesting in or near the 

 garden. 



Usually one pair, nevermore; nest in 1903. 



One or two pairs flying overhead daily 

 through June, July and August. 

 6. Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Seen occasionally in June, but no nests 



found. 



One or two pairs nesting near but not within 

 the grounds. 



One or two pairs nesting in the neighbor- 

 hood and seen daily. 



One or two pairs nesting. 



Several birds frequenting the place, but not 

 nesting there. 



Seen for the last time in the breeding sea- 

 son in 1900. 



From one or two to five or six pairs. 



2. Yellow-billed Cuckoo. 



3. Black-billed Cuckoo. 



4. Northern Flicker. 



5. Chimney Swift. 



7. Least Flycatcher. 



8. American Crow. 



9. Baltimore Oriole. 



10. Bronzed Grackle. 



1 1. Purple Finch. 



12. House Sparrow. 



