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Bird - Lore 



A Chicago Bird-list 



It may be interesting to the readers of 

 Bird-Lore to have my record for the 

 season of 1910 of the birds seen from or in 

 my back yard in Chicago. The list is cer- 

 tainly an encouragement to those who 

 complain that unfavorable environment 

 prevents a study of bird life, or even the 

 listing of any extended number. There are 

 worse places to see birds than in a city. 



During the season, 78 species of birds 

 were listed, and of these 53 alighted in the 

 yard, feeding on the ground or in the 

 shrubbery. All such in the list are marked 

 by a star. My location is six and one-half 

 miles from the center of the city, and 

 about one and one-half miles within the 

 boundary of closely-built-up territory. A 

 double row of large trees extends for one- 

 half mile north and south, and my home 

 is in the line of these trees. This seems to 

 form a highway, for the Warblers in par- 

 ticular, twenty different kinds of this 

 group being noted. An interesting note 

 on a Warbler was made this fall, when a 

 Northern Water-Thrush remained in my 

 corn-patch a whole week, departing 

 promptly with a second, which arrived on 

 the eighth night. 



The flying birds were certainly identi- 

 fied by a powerful glass, or they were not 

 listed. The first of this group was the 

 Herring Gull, Jan. 10, and the last a flock 

 of Canada Geese, Dec. i. Many Warblers 

 were identified, both in spring and fall 

 migration, but by far the larger number 

 of species was noted before May 25. 



The list is in the order of the bird's 

 occurrence, from spring to the end of the 

 season, and is as follows: 



Herring Gull 



Ring-billed Gull 



Crow 

 *Downy Woodpecker 

 *Song Sparrow 

 *Robin 



Meadowlark 

 *Bluebird 



Mallard 



Lapland Longspur 

 *Blue Jay 



Canada Goose 

 *Bronze Grackle 



Cowbird 

 *Junco 



Blue-winged Teal 



^Flicker 

 *Fox Sparrow 



Killdeer Plover 

 ^Goldfinch 



Brown Thrasher 

 *House Wren 

 ^Baltimore Oriole 

 *Sapsucker 

 *Red-headed Wood- 

 pecker 



Red-wing Blackbird 

 *Hermit Thrush 

 *Ruby-crowned 



Kinglet 

 * Golden-crowned 

 Kinglet 



Martin 



American Bittern 



Mourning Dove 



Sharp-shinned 

 Hawk 



Chimney Swift 

 ^Hummingbird 

 *Least Flycatcher 



Bobolink 



* White-throated 



Sparrow 

 ^Chipping Sparrow 

 *Towhee 

 *Rose-breasted 



Grosbeak 

 Barn Swallow 

 *Black and White 



Warbler 

 *01ive-backed 



Thrush 

 *Gray-cheeked 



Thrush 



* Myrtle Warbler 

 *Palm Warbler 

 *Yellow Warbler 

 *Black-throated 



Blue Warbler 

 *Magnolia Warbler 



* Chestnut-sided 



Warbler 



*Bay-breasted War- 

 bler 



— H. S. Pepoon, 3842 



*Blackpoll Warbler 



*Blackburnian War- 

 bler 



*Wilson's Warbler 



*Redstart 



*Worm-eating War- 

 bler 



^Wilson's Thrush 



♦Canadian Warbler 



*Pine Warbler 



*Black-throated 

 Green Warbler 



*Oven-bird 



* Maryland Yellow- 



throat 

 *Red-eyed Vireo 

 *Blue-headed Vireo 

 *White-eyed Vireo 



* Yellow- throated 



Vireo 

 *Scarlet Tanager 

 *Cape May Warbler 

 Whip-poor-will 

 Nighthawk 

 Kingbird 

 Phoebe 

 *Hairy Woodpecker 

 *Brown Creeper 

 Pine Siskin 

 Tree Sparrow 

 ^Northern Water- 

 Thrush 

 Byron Ave., Chicago, III ^ 



Birds in a Milwaukee Garden 



For nine years — March 15, 1902, to 

 Dec. 31, 1910 — the undersigned have 

 kept a record of the wild birds seen on or 

 over their home lot. This lot is a half- 

 mile within the nearest city limit (the 

 city is thickly built up to the imit), is not 

 near any water, and is 50x180.4 feet in 

 size. There is a large house on the lot, 

 and the adjoining lots have large houses on 

 or near the line. The only trees or shrubs 

 on the lot were set out about the time the 

 record began. 



To be recorded, birds must be on or 

 within the limits of the lot, or those 

 limits extended vertically. 



One hundred and twelve species of 

 birds have given us the pleasure of con- 

 forming to our requirements in the time 

 above mentioned. An American Bittern 

 was seen in the garden the spring before 

 the record was begun. This would make 

 113 species seen thus far. Of these, iii 

 species have been seen on or over the 

 garden proper, which is south of the house 

 and 50 X 100 feet in size, reaching from the 

 back door to the back fence. 



