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white-breasted nuthatch, downy woodpecker, hairy woodpecl^er, red- 

 tailed hawk, partridge, crow, screech owl, great horned owl, brown 

 creeper and pileated woodpecker. This last is a rare bird hereabouts, 

 a single one being seen by Mr. Horton last month. The winter visitors 

 seen were northern shrike, goshawk, American crossbill, white-winged 

 crossbill, siskin, snow bunting, tree sparrow and pine grosbeak. The 

 list of arrivals from the south in" the spring and the dates of their 

 coming follows: 



Feb. 20, junco; March 15, fox sparrow, robin; 17, bluebird, song 

 sparrow; 22, bronzed grackle, red-winged blackbird; 23, phoebe; 26, 

 Canada goose; 27, woodcock, kingfisher; 28, golden-crowned kinglet; 

 31, vesper sparrow, white-throated sparrow; April 4, hermit thrush, 

 meadow lark, field sparrow; 5, flicker; 7, cedar waxwing; 10, Savannah 

 sparrow; 11, ruby-crowned kinglet; 17, pine warbler; 20, tree swallow; 

 24, chipping sparrow; 25, purple finch; 28, barn swallow, bank swallow; 

 May 5, black and white warbler, chewink, myrtle warbler; 7, chimney 

 swift, eave swallow; 8, least fiycatcher, black-throated green warbler, 

 yeiiow warbler; 10, yellow-throated vireo, kingbird; 11, black-throated 

 blue warbler, parula warbler, Wilson's thrush, Nashville warbler, oven 

 bird, solitary vireo, yellow-bellied flycatcher, house wren; 12, winter 

 wren, wood thrush; 13, warbling vireo; 14, blackburnian warbler, 

 catbird, chestnut-sided warbler, rose-breasted grosbeak, scarlet tanager, 

 Baltimore oriole, brown thrasher, redstart, spotted sandpiper, Cooper's 

 hawk; 15, bobolink, Canadian warbler; 17, Wilson's warbler, northern 

 water thrush; 18, white-rumped sandpiper, indigo bunting, olive-backed 

 thrush, Alice's thrush, black-billed cuckoo, ruby throated humming- 

 bird; 19, magnolia warbler, great crested fiycatcher; June 5, blackpoll 

 warbler. 



Besides these, 15 other birds were seen by one or both observ- 

 ers at some time in the summer. As they were not seen until long 

 after their probable arrival the dates when they were found are 

 not given. They were wood pewee, green heron, grasshopper sparrow, 

 bittern, marsh hawk, nighthawk; red-shouldered hawk, black duck, 

 swamp sparrow, whip-poor-will, osprey, solitary sandpiper, shalrp- 

 shinned hawk, yellow-billed cuckoo and yellow bellied sapsucker. 



BIRD LIST, 1907, RUTLAND AND VICINITY. 



George L. Kirk. 



January 3, great grey owl; 13, meadow lark, chickadee, blue jay, 

 golden crowned kinglet, hairy woodpecker, ruffed grouse, snowflake; 

 18, white bellied nuthatch; 24, pine grosbeak; February 2, crow; 22, 



