14 Tur Witson BULLETIN, No. 74. 
s Tufted Titmouse 
d Brown Thrasher 
s Catbird 
d Mockingbird 
s Warbling Vireo 
d Migrant Shrike 
s Dickcissel 
s Rose-breasted Grosbeak 
d Cardinal 
t Towhee 
s Indigo Bunting 
d Field Sparrow 
s Lark Sparrow 
s Vesper Sparrow 
s Goldfinch 
s Bronzed Grackle 
s Baltimore Oriole 
d Orchard Oriole 
t Cowbird 
s Crow 
t Blue Jay 
s Kingbird 
s Northern Flicker 
n 
Red-headed Woodpecker 
Downy Woodpecker 
Ilairy Woodpecker 
Black-billed Cuckoo 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 
d Mourning Dove 
n 
n 
n 
rh Fh hb rh 
rh Ph Rh Ph Rh Ph Fb 
ber fe Ure fhe fe rc) 
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a very few in hedges 
quite common 
a few especially near houses 
not many individuals, but al- 
most universally in hedges 
a few in hedges near woods 
ra very few in this region 
oR 
i) 
This bird quite commonly 
uses the hedges as a point of 
yantage from which to Jook 
and to sing. Wires are, how- 
ever, preferred to a noticea- 
ble extent when the wires are 
near the hedges. 
few and only occasionally 
* quite common 
one record 
few 
common 
rarely 
rarely 
not common 
occasionally 
frequent 
frequent 
occasionally 
r seldom 
r 
infrequent 
occasionally 
occasionally 
not infrequent 
very few 
two pairs and their young 
occasionally 
not infrequent 
common 
From the length of the list of hedge birds one might think 
that hedges were favorit places for birds, but the fact is that 
where hedges occur they are usually the only points of van- 
tage from which the birds can watch the movements of in- 
truders. 
They afford birds of the crops, of the bunchgrass 
prairies, and of the roadsides, lookout stations which virtually 
