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low shaded brook in the little pas- 

 ture just below the door-yard. 



27. Woodcock. Thanks to this 

 same little brook that we were able to 

 add this and a few other waders. Year 

 by year this charmingly interesting 

 bird grows a little scarcer here. He 

 deserves complete protection, tor he 

 has odds enough already without 

 those added straws, the dog and gun. 



28. Bartramian Sandpiper. Fre- 

 quently we heard his eerie call as he 

 winnowed the upper air. 



29. Kill deer. 



30. Green Heron. Came to fish in 

 the brook. 



31. Great Blue Heron. Glimpses 

 Oi his ancient and classic figure van- 

 ishing across the sky at sunset. 



32. Canada Goose. His flying 

 wedge was seen as with rusty clamor 

 he caused every neck to crane and 

 filled every heart with vernal hope in 

 the hamlet below. 



33. Kingfisher. Sometimes we heard 

 a burst of his derisive laughter as he 

 flew up the brook. 



34. Red-shouldered Blackbird. 

 Flocks of males came and held "sange- 

 tests" in the elms, spraying the whole 

 neighborhood with their jamboree of 

 music. 



35. Cow-bird.* These unwelcome 

 sneaks came, of course to drop more 

 unwelcome eggs in the nests of our 

 breeding birds. 



36. Meadow lark. 



37. Baltimore Oriole.* Bach year 

 we had several of these fine whistlers 

 and expert weavers with us. Exper- 

 ienced birds nested in the big elms 

 while the experimenters tried the lo- 

 cust trees, and one pair swung a ham- 

 mock in the topmost spire of the 

 spruce tree — a most elaborate deep 

 pocket of asclepias fiber. One would 

 have said that the wisdom in choice 

 cf nest site was equalled only by the 

 skill displayed in the structure. But 



one night came a great wind storm 

 and next morning a brood of naked 

 nestlings lay dead on our very door 

 step. How the spruce top must have 

 been tossed to have inverted that deep 

 l)ouch and spilled its contents! 



38. Orchard Oriole. Bred in the 

 neighborhood and visited us occasion- 

 ally to regale us with one of the rich- 

 est of bird songs. A rare bird here. 



39. Scarlet Tanager.* A pair ac- 

 tually left their haunts in the summer 

 woods to nest in a pear tree and so 

 delight a pair of bird-lovers. 



JO. Bobolink. 



41. Phoebe.* 



42. Least Flycatcher. 



43. Wood pewee.* 



44. Great Crested Flycatcher. 

 4.^. Kingbird. 



46. Cedar-bird.* 



47. Swift. 



48. Xight Hawk. 



49. AVhip-poor-will. 



■jO. Ruby-throated Hummingbird.* 



51. Barn Swallow.* 



52. Purple Martin. (Would never 

 nest in the boxes provided.) 



53. Golden Crowned Kinglet. 



54. Ruby-crowned Kinglet. 



55. Brown Thrasher.* 



56. House Wren.* 



57. Winter Wren. 



58. Carolina Wren. 



59. White-breasted Nuthatch. 



60. Red-bellied Nuthatch. 



61. Tufted Titmouse. 



(J2. Black-capped Chickadee. 



63. Yellow-billed Cuckoo.* 



64. Black-billed Cuckoo. 



65. Bronze Grackle.* (Our con> 

 monest nesting bird in the pines, 

 cedars and spruce tree. 



66. Downy Woodpecker. 



67. Hairy Woodpecker. 



68. Red-bellied Woodpecker. 



69. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. 



70. Flicker. 



