CENSUS OF NESTING BIRDS 29 



The following species were found as summer birds for 

 this section. The numbers refer to the number of male birds 

 counted, and hence represents approximately the number of 

 nesting pairs of birds. This list and others that follow, will 

 be given in order of number of birds found rather than in the 

 ornithological order. (See check list on page — for scientific 

 names of the birds.) 



The List — Sections Number 1, 2 and ^ 



Robin 14 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 2 



Brown Thrasher 12 Crested Flycatcher 2 



Catbird 10 Bob White 



Wood Thrush 8 Screech Owl 



Meadowlark 6 Downy Woodpecker 



Blue Jay 5 Cowbird 



Red-headed Woodpecker 4 Wood Peewee 



Kingbird 4 Towhee 



Baltimore Oriole 4 Tufted Titmouse 



Chimney Swift 4 Chickadee 



Flicker ^ 2 Bluebird 



Mourning Dove 2 



Total Species, 23; Male Birds 



SECTION NUMBER 4 



Section Number 4 is more wooded. The trees are gen- 

 erally larger but there is not much underbrush, save in the 

 eastern half where it slopes toward a small stream which wan- 

 ders southeasterly through Yate's Hollow. ( See map. ) 



Yate's Hollow is thickly overgrown with red haws, dog- 

 wood, buckbrush, greenbriar. poison ivy, sumach and other 

 plants including the common species of trees. It has never 

 been cleared nor greatly disturbed, except by the paths worn 

 by people strolling through the Park. 



