28 BIRDS 



Birds That Are White 



Wliite-tailcd ptarmigan, snowj' 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 Are Famous as Game Birds 

 The various ducks, including the Canada goose, plovers, 

 snipes, and sandpipers, including woodcock, and grouse. 



Sweetest Song Birds 

 Tlu-ushes, including the veery and robin : also the dipper 

 and brown thrasher, mocking-bird, ruby-crowned kinglet, 

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

 lark, bobolink, the sparrows, purple martin, ^Maryland j'^el- 

 low-throat, and yellow-breasted chat. 



Birds With Crests axd Topknots 

 This is so easily compiled that no list is necessary. 



Birds FREarENTiNG Barns and Outbuildings 

 Purple martin, barn sAvallow, phoebe, and cliff swallow. 



Birds That Lh^e in Our Orchards 

 Flicker, bluebinl. orchard oriole, mourning dove, cedar 

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

 eyed vireo. 



Birds That Frequent the Trees and Underbrush Along the 

 Roadsides and Drh-eways 



Baltimore oriole, kingbird, bro^ni thrasher, loggerhead 

 shrike, and least flycatcher. 



