The Birds’ Calendar 
Pheasant Family (0). Heron Family (13). 
Peacock. * Black-crowned Night Her- 
on. 
Grouse Family (25). Green Heron. 
Virginia Partridge (Bob- Duck Family (58). 
white). Mute Swan.* 
Black Swan.* 
Snipe Family (43). Canada Goose. 
Solitary Sandpiper. Gull Family (46). 
Spotted Sandpiper. Herring Gull. 
—with an unexplored remainder of three spe- 
cies which could not be determined. 
It is with a feeling of mortification that I 
record the fact that another’s eyes were more 
fortunate than mine in finding that vara avis, 
the Cape May warbler (Dendroica tigrina), and 
also the more common ‘‘ worm-eating war- 
bler.’’ But my chagrin is somewhat alleviated 
by the circumstance that my friend missed see- 
ing my purple finches, crossbills, and mocking- 
bird. Forgive me this unholy satisfaction ! 
9 
In these closing hours of the old year the 
tide is out, and the sky is cold and dark. But 
* Indigenous in the Old World. 
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