SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OP BIRD COUNTS IN THE U. S. 



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Tabj^e IV. — Kinds of birds, and the number of pairs of each, nesting on a 50- 

 acre tract at Viresco, Va., during each of the five years, 1911 to 1915. 



Species. 



Bluebird 



Southern robin.. 



Wood thrush 



Carolina chickadee 



Tufted titmouse 



House wren 



Carolina wren 



Brown thrasher 



Catbird 



Black and white war- 

 bler • 



Parula warbler 



Oven-bird 



Maryland yellow-throat 



Chat 



Hooded warbler 



Redstart 



White-eyed vireo 



Yellow-throated vireo. . 



Red-eyed vireo 



Rough-winged swallow. 



Scarlet tanager 



Indigo bunting 



Cardinal 



Towhee 



1913 



1914 



1915 



Species. 



Song sparrow 



Field sparrow: 



Chipping sparrow 



Grasshopper sparrow... 



Orchard oriole 



American crow 



Blue jay 



Acadian flycatcher 



Wood pewee 



Phoebe 



Crested flycatcher 



Kingbird 



Ruby-throated hum- 

 mingbird 



Whip-poor-will 



Downy woodpecker 



Hairy woodpecker 



Mourning dove 



Bob-white 



Total number of 

 diflerent species. . 



Total pairs of nest- 

 ing birds 



1911 



1913 



1914 



1915 



THE POSSIBILITIES FROM BIRD PROTECTION. 



To increase the number and variety of birds about the home, 

 whether in the country or in the city, has become the laudable desire 

 of an increasingly large number of persons. Among the reports are 

 examples of such decided successes in these endeavors that a few in 

 detail will be of interest. 



Two city blocks, 10 acres in all, in the town of Aiken, S. C, have 

 for many years been liberally supplied with bird food and water. In 

 the summer of 1915 the following nests were counted: Blue jay, 14; 

 red-headed woodpecker, 11; mockingbird, 9; brown thrasher, 8; 

 catbird, 7; cardinal, 6; wood thrush, 4; orchard oriole, 1; towhee, 

 1; English sparrow, 4; total, 10 species and 65 nesting pairs. This 

 shows a large number of nesting birds comprising a comparatively 

 small number of species, the blue jay and the red-headed woodpecker 

 being the most numerous. 



At Olney, 111., Mr. Robert Ridgway has devoted 8 acres of land 

 to homes for birds. His aim is to have the greatest possible variety, 

 and of course as many individuals of each as is consistent with this, 

 but a great number of different kinds is considered more important 

 than mere numbers of individuals. As a result of more than ordinarily 

 favorable natural conditions, supplemented by the planting of differ- 

 ent kinds of shrubbery for bird food and shelter, furnishing a super- 

 abundance of nesting boxes, and supplying an unlimited quantity 

 of food all the year and water through the summer, these 8 acres have 

 become the summer home of 70 pairs of native birds of 31 species, as 

 follows : Mourning dove, 13 ; screech owl, 2 ; yellow-billed cuckoo, 1 ; 



