Hudsonian chickadee, two records on Mount Pico, Sher- 

 burne, altitude about 3500 feet. 



Grasshopper sparrow, breeds occasionally in Fair Haven 

 and Benson, and probably elsewhere in western part of the 

 county. One record in Rutland and one in West Rutland. 

 Surf scoter, common migrant on lakes and ponds. 

 American scoter, uncommon migrant. 



Horned lark. Considerable study has been made of this 

 bird with a view to ascertaining the time of its visits in com- 

 parison with those of the more southern prairie horned lark. 

 We find the horned lark to be a rare migrant occurring only 

 in December, January and in February with flocks of prairie 

 horned larks which arrive for the season about February 25, 

 being really our earliest migrant, although not always being 

 considered a migrant, and remaining until late November. 

 Horned grebe, very common fall and spring migrant. 

 Evening grosbeak, flock of nearly twenty birds were seen 

 about the streets of Rutland from February until May, 1909. 

 Have no other record for these rare visitors from the 

 Canadian northwest. 



Canada jay. Mr. Ross has twice observed this bird, once on 

 Mount Killington in Sherburne, and once near the city at 700 

 feet altitude. Both birds were seen in midwinter. 



Least bittern. A Middletown Springs man who had an 

 exhibit of birds at the Rutland county fair in September, 

 1910, showed a mounted specimen of one of these birds, which 

 he said that he shot at a small pond in Castleton, a half mile 

 from Lake Bomoseen. He stated that a colony had bred 

 there for years. The writer knows of no other Vermont 

 record for this bird. 



It may not be out of place to mention here that the present 

 winter has been an unusually good one for northern birds, and 

 all the ordinary species thait come to us from the north in the 

 cold months have been noted in considerable numbers. The 

 most notable was a great grey owl which the writer saw on 

 New Year's day almost in the city limits. Attention was 

 called to it by the fluttering and loud cries of a sparrow hawk 

 in a big tree under which it sat on the ground. Did any Club 

 member ever see a sparrow hawk in winter? I never did 

 before. 



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