VERMONT BIRD CLUB 



Emily Clark of St. Johnsbury; The Hartland Nature Club of 

 Hartland; iMiss Mary L. Sanford of Stamford. We would like 

 to print all of these lists but space does not permit. Mr. Kirk's 

 list includes 137 species, and Dr. Ross' 136. 



BIRD LIST, 1909, RUTLAND AND VICINITY. 



BY GEORGE L. KIRK. 



The list is printed in the order in which the birds were 

 seen, figures refer to the day of the month. 



January i, chickadee, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker; 

 10, red-bellied nuthatch, crow, blue jay, redpoll, ruffed grouse; 

 21, great horned owl; 24, American merganser; February 6, 

 pine siskin, red crossbill, golden-crowned kinglet; 21, evening 

 grosbeak, prairie horned lark; 27, white-bellied nuthatch, white 

 winged crossbill; March 14, snowflake, brown creeper; 18, red- 

 shouldered hawk; 19, bluebird, sparrow hawk; 20, northern 

 shrike; 21, pileated woodpecker; 24, red-winged blackbird; song 

 sparrow; 28, robin; 30, meadow lark, red-tailed hawk; April 2, 

 bronzed grackle; 6, phoebe, fox sparrow; 10, hermit thrush; 11, 

 flicker,winter wren, yellow bellied sapsucker, vesper sparrow; 12, 

 rusty blackbird, black duck; 13, Savanna sparrow, wood duck, tree 

 sparrow; 18, ruby- crowned kinglet, chipping sparrow, white- 

 throated sparrow, V/ilson's snipe; 21, kingfisher, vellow redpoll 

 warbler; 22, cowbird, vesper sparrow; 27, purple martin, Wdson 

 thrush; May 2, Cooper's hawk, loon, whistler duck, blue heron, 

 herring gull, bald eagle, spotted sandpiper, myrtle warbler, tree 

 swallow, osprey, pied-billed grebe; 4, catbird, American bittern, 

 swamp sparrow, barn swallow, chimney swift, brown thrasher; 

 6, long-eared owl, king bird, cliff swallow, black and white 

 warbler; 7, black-throated- blue warbler; black-throated-green 

 warbler, bobolink, bank swallow; 8, white-crowned sparrow, 

 yellow warbler, Maryland yellow throat, solitary vireo, chewink; 

 9, Baltimore oriole, chestnut-sided warbler, blackburnian warbler, 

 parula warbler, Nashville warbler, oven bird, redstart, least fly- 

 catcher, marsh hawk; 10, warbling vireo; 12, solitary sandpiper, 

 Wilson's warbler; water thrush; 14, magnolia warbler, wood- 

 cock, olive-backed thrush; 16, grasshopper sparrow, rose- 

 breasted grosbeak, red-eyed vireo, great-crested flycatcher, 

 wood thrush; 18, bay-breasted warbler, yellow-throated vireo; 

 19, Traill's flycatcher, humming bird, scarlet tanager, olive- 

 sided flycatcher, indigo bunting; 20, Canadian warbler, house 

 wren; 26, wood pewee, night hawk; 28, pine warbler; 31, 

 blackpoll warbler, cedar waxwing, mourning dove; June 8, 



