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residents; red-winged blackbirds (600), cardinals (95), plumbeous 

 chicadees (54), bluebirds (3), flickers (25), crows (21), go'.d- 

 finces (21), downy woodpeckers (19), English sparrow,s (12), bob- 

 whites (9), western meadowlarks (6), hairy woodpeckers (5), field 

 sparrows (5), marsh hawks (2), Carolina wrens (2), Texas Bewick 

 wrens (2), brown creepers (2), tufted titmice (2), screech owl 

 (1), red-bellied woodpecker (1), red-shafted flicker (1), white- 

 rumped shirke (1). Residents represented by stray specimens, 

 most of their kind having gone south, were: robins (5), western 

 mourning does (3), blue jay (1), mocking-bird (1). There were 

 8 kinds of winter residents: Harris sparrow (82), Canada geese 

 (29), juncos (28), song sparrows (20), desert horned larks (7), 

 tree sparrows (3), cedar waxwings (3), Artie towee (1), and 

 sharp-shinned hawk (1). Other birds observed this winter are: 

 ducks, burrowing owl, red-tailed hawk, Savannah sparrows, fox 

 sparrows, and myrtle warblers. In other years killdeers, sparrow 

 hawks, and purple finches, have been seen. 



LATE NESTING OF MOURNING DOVES 



Margaret M. Nice, 1920. 

 (Abstract) 



We found 34 occupied nests of mourning doves in Norman, 

 Oklahoma, in August 1919. In September we found 31 and in 

 October 3, 45 different nests in all. Two nests had eggs in them as 

 late as September 18th, and one, September 22nd. 



SOME EXPERIENCES WITH MOURNING DOVES 

 IN CAPTIVITY 



Margaret Morse Nice, 1920. 



The following brief notes were made on two young male wes- 

 tern mourning doves (Zenaidura macroura niarginella) which we 

 had in captivity from the fall of 1919 until the spring of 1920. 



The older bird, F, was given to us September 25, 1919, when 

 about two months old; he had been injured by blue jays and a dog, 

 and for a week or so did not seem able to fly well. He was always 

 very tame with people, liking to sit on their hands and preen their 

 fingers. We used to take him outdoors in the fall letting him ride 

 on the baby carriage. He was however, entirely undiscriminating 



