28 BIRDS 



BiKDs That Ake White 



White-tailed ptarmigan, snowy owl, common tern, Cas- 

 pian tern, kittiwake, ring-billed gull, and snowflake. Are 

 all these birds white in both winter and summer? Do they 

 differ from albinos? 



Species Which Ahe Famous as G.uie Birds 

 The various ducks, including the Canada goose, plovers, 

 snipes, and sandpipers, including woodcock, and grouse. 



Sweetest Song Bikds 

 Thrushes, including the veery and robin ; also the dipper 

 and brown thrasher, mocking-bird, ruby-cro^vTied kinglet, 

 rose-breasted grosbeak, the wrens, indigo bunting, meadow- 

 lark, bobolink, the sparrows, purple martin, IMaryland yel- 

 low-throat, and yellow-breasted chat. 



Birds With Crests and Topknots 

 This is so easUy compiled that no list is necessary. 



Birds Frequenting Barns and Outbuildings 

 Purple martin, barn swallow, phcebe, and cliflf swallow. 



Birds That Live in Our Orchards 

 Flicker, bluebird, orchard oriole, mourning dove, cedar 

 waxwing, yellow-billed and black-biUed cuckoos, and red- 

 eyed vireo. 



Birds That Frequent the Trees and Underbrush Along the 

 Roadsides and Driveways 



Baltimore oriole, kingbird, browTi thrasher, loggerhead 

 shrike, and least flycatcher. 



