DELAWARE VALLEY ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 27 



cent years seems to have been overlooked by our local ornith- 

 ologists. 



The above species, with an occasional Goldfinch, Cowbird, 

 Cedarbird, Baltimore Oriole, Night Hawk, Yellowbilled Cuckoo, 

 Screech Owl, and Sparrow Hawk, make up the normal list of 

 summer birds for the region covered by our usual wanderings 

 when lodged at Catoxen. 



In migrations there are, of course, many other species. The 

 various Warblers pass through our woods in their travels, and 

 ducks — Wood Ducks, Mallards and Black Ducks — have been seen 

 on the creek, and down by the spring early one May morning 

 I heard a Veery singing. Late in August, too, we usually 

 see solitary Migrant Shrikes perched on the fence posts about 

 the old fields and flying away to the top of some small tree, 

 with much show of white on the wings, as we approach. 



In winter the Juncos come up to our door for crumbs, and 

 Brown Creepers, Nuthatches of both kinds, Golden -crowned 

 Kinglets, and occasional Myrtle Warblers are to be seen, while 

 swamps and thickets shelter Tree and White-throated Sparrows 

 and an occasional Hermit Thrush. 



Goldfinches, Cardinals and Jays are more conspicuous at this 

 season also, and several times we have watched the Pine Siskins 

 feeding on the alder catkins. A little to the west, as the winter 

 sun is setting, we can see the long lines of Crows patiently 

 winging their way to the Merchantville roost. 



One bitter cold windy day an enthusiastic ornithologist dis- 

 covered a Snowy Owl perched in the dense top of one of the tall, 

 slender, red cedars that line the old fence rows. After a vigor- 

 ous bombardment, a well-directed missile brought the bird to a 

 realization of its danger, and with tremendous wing action and 

 loud complaining cackle there flew out of the sheltering cedar 

 and away over the fields to a solitary farm-house a snow-white 

 Guinea Fowl, demonstrating that color and size are not always 

 sufficiently diagnostic to be relied upon. 



Among the birds which do not occur at Catoxen, so far as we 

 have been able to ascertain, are the Swamp Sparrow and Marsh 

 Wren of the Delaware meadows which apparently do not here 

 venture above tide-water, the Redheaded Woodpecker, always a 



