■202 Bowdish, Ornithology of a Churchyard. Etuly 



Champley. Size 4 J inches long and 3^ broad. Dark yellow mark- 

 ings, all at the thick end (Grieve, No. 63, page ^^, appendix). 



Egg No. 8 (Plate XIV, upper figure) was bought from the same. 

 Size 4§ inches long and 2§ broad. Ground color dark yellow, 

 marked all over (Grieve, 65, page 34, appendix). 



These eggs are all in good condition, but of course end blown 

 and the holes seem large in comparison to the way eggs are blown 

 to-day. 



ORNITHOLOGY OF A CHURCHYARD. 



BY B. S. BOWDISH. 



Even under unpromising conditions, and in unexpected places, 

 there is often something for the bird-student to investigate. This 

 is illustrated by some surprising records from city parks, and even 

 from the smaller green spots, oases in the great desert of brick 

 and mortar. 



As such a record I here submit for whatever it may be worth, 

 the results of observations in Saint Paul's Churchyard, New York 

 City, made mostly during intervals of a few moments at noon, and 

 occasionally in the morning, and covering the migration periods of 

 spring and fall of 1903, and spring of 1904. 



Saint Paul's Church property is situated nearly midway between 

 the East and North Rivers, fronting east on Broadway, Church 

 Street at the rear, Vesey Street on the north side and Fulton 

 Street on the south, and it is thus in one of the busiest and noisi- 

 est sections of the city. 



At the rear of the property, along Church Street, there is the 

 constant rumble and roar of the elevated railroad. This church 

 property is about 332 feet long by 177 feet wide, of which area 

 the church occupies a space about 78 by 120 feet at the Broadway 

 end, while at the Church Street end the Church School takes off 

 another slice about 30 feet wide. The space remaining consists 

 of the main yard at the rear of the church, between it and the 



