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Bird - Lore 



Nighthawk, Chimney Swift, Ruby- 

 throated Hummingbird, Kingbird, Crested 

 Flycatcher, PhcEbe, Least Flycatcher, Blue 

 Jay, American Crow, Fish Crow, Bobo- 

 link, Cowbird, Red-winged Blackbird, 

 Meadowlark, Orchard Oriole, Baltimore 

 Oriole, Purple Grackle, Purple Finch, 

 American Crossbill, White-winged Cross- 

 bill, American Goldfinch, Pine Si&kin, 

 Vesper Sparrow, Yellow-winged Sparrow» 

 Chipping Sparrow, Field Sparrow, Song 

 Sparrow, Lincoln's Sparrow, Towhee, 

 Rose - breasted Grosbeak, Indigo -bird. 

 Scarlet Tanager, Cliflf Swallow, Barn Swal- 

 low, Rough-winged Swallow, Cedar-bird, 

 Red-eye 1 Vireo, Warbling Vireo, Yellow- 

 throated Vireo, White-eyed Vireo, Black 

 and White Warbler, Blue-winged Warbler, 

 Golden-winged Warbler, Nashville War- 

 bler, Parula Warbler, Cape May Warbler, 

 Yellow Warbler, Black-throated Blue 

 Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Black 

 and Yellow Warbler, Chestnut-sided War- 

 bler, Bay-breasted Warbler, Blackburnian 

 Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler, 

 Prairie Warbler, Ovenbird, Northern Water- 

 Thrush, Louisiana Water-Thrush, Mary- 

 land Yellow - throat Warbler, Yellow- 

 breasted Chat, Wilson's Warbler, Cana- 

 dian Warbler, American Redstart, Catbird, 

 Brown Thrasher, House Wren, White- 

 breasted Nuthatch, Chickadee, Wood 

 Thrush, Wilson's Thrush, Gray-cheeked 

 Thrush, Olive-backed Thrush, American 

 Robin, Bluebird. — Gerald H. Thayer, 

 Monadnock, N. H. 



Notes from in and near New York 



Hairy Woodpecker. A male and a 

 female spent this past winter in the Ramble, 

 Central Park, and they or others have been 

 seen in the north end woods. This is the 

 first time in the four years I have been in 

 New York that I have known this species 

 to winter here. 



Pine Grosbeak. I was shown two, in 

 gray plumage, in Central Park, November 

 12, 1903, and had excellent views before 

 they flew. About three minutes later I 

 found three (different ?) individuals in the 

 same place, also gray. At Nordhoff, Ber- 



gen County, N. J., on January 9, I saw 

 three Grosbeaks, two of them splendid 

 adult males. 



Pine Siskin. October 11, 1903, I saw 

 one Siskin feeding with several other spe- 

 cies of its farnily, in Central Park, on the 

 wall of the smaller reservoir. 



Field Sparrow. In Bronx Park, at 

 Pelham avenue, where it crosses the Bronx 

 river, I saw one individual on January 17, 

 feeding with Tree and Song Sparrows. 



Hooded Warbler. November 8, 1903, 

 six weeks later than the date for departure 

 given in Mr. Chapman's 'Handbook,' I 

 saw an adult male at Grantwood, Bergen 

 county, N. J. 



Wilson's Warbler. I saw one in Cen- 

 tral Park, on October 31, 1903. My dates 

 for this and the next species were each a 

 month later than those given in the ' Hand- 

 book.' 



Long-billed Marsh Wren. I saw one 

 of these Wrens at Moresraere, Bergen 

 county, N. J., on November 8, 1903, and 

 another on the 21st. — Charles H. Rogers, 

 Nenv York City. 



Pine Grosbeaks in New Jersey 



Pine Grosbeaks were first seen here on 

 Christmas Day, their first appearance since 

 February, 1897; I next saw them the first 

 Sunday of the new year, and since then 

 have seen literally hundreds of them. It 

 has been no unusual thing to see as many 

 as four or five flocks of from six to twenty 

 individuals in the course of an afternoon's 

 walk. They have been seen in every part 

 of town, and many people have been sure 

 that a large flock of Robins was wintering 

 in their cedars. Since the middle of Feb- 

 ruary I have not seen so many, generally a 

 single one, or sometimes two. The propor- 

 tion of red to gray ones has been one to five 

 or six. 



For several weeks after their arrival their 

 food seemed to consist of the fruit of the 

 mountain ash and honeysuckle berries, and 

 while the berries lasted they were daily 

 visitors to porches where honeysuckles are 

 found. Lately they have been feeding on 

 tree-buds, especially those of the English 



