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Night, and Green Herons; Flycatchers, 

 Towhees ; Red-eyed, Yellow- throated 

 and Warbling Vireos; Black and White, 

 Chestnut-sided and Yellow Warblers; 

 Ovenbirds, Maryland Yellow-throats, 

 House Wrens (formerly rare, have be- 

 come more common during the past two 

 years), White-breasted Nuthatches. 



The birds which seem to remain about 

 the same in numbers, neither increasing 

 nor decreasing, are: Mourning Doves; 

 Red-tailed, Red-shouldered and Marsh 

 Hawks (all of these Hawks are only 

 seen occasionally) ; Screech Owls, Hum- 

 mingbirds, Swamp Sparrows, Indigo 

 Buntings, Rough-winged Swallows, 

 Cedar Waxwings, Water-Thrushes, Cat- 

 birds, Chickadees, and lastly Wood 

 Thrushes. 



The slowly decreasing birds are as fol- 



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lows: Hawks of the Genus Accipter, 

 Cuckoos, Kingfishers; Vesper, Field and 



