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VOL. XIX. NO. 13. ALBION, N. Y., DECEMBER, 1903. Whole No. 195. 



The Oologist. 



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ENTERED AT THE P. O. , ALBION, N. Y. AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER. 



Migration of Birds. 



Of the the winter birds of the Great 

 Lake Region there are about ninety 

 species, and in Kalamazoo County, be- 



tween the forty second and forty third 

 parallels there are over eighty recorded 

 as winter residents or in the division 

 called half-hardy, those that remain an 

 occasional winter or a portion of the 

 colder months. 



Of these winter residents that come 

 from the north there are none more 

 rare in appearance than the Bohemian 

 Waxwing and Pine Grosbeak. It may 

 yet be proven that the Pine Grosbeck 

 is an annual visitant, but this has not 

 as yet been shown though they have 

 been recorded successive seasons 

 Let us look at the records of appear- 

 ance of this bird of the extreme north. 

 In 1869 it appeared in Kent County; in 

 1870 in Cass and Calhoun Counties; 1871 

 found the birds in Vanburen County. 

 The winters of 1873 and 1873 gave no 

 win'er records that I can find. In Jan- 

 uary 1874 the species appeared in Kal- 

 amazoo County, in small flocks, and in 

 December, 1874, they again visited us 

 and in large flocks, remaining until 

 February, 1875. Flocks were also ob- 

 served in other parts of the state in the 

 winters of 1874 and 1875. They were 

 seen in 1878 and 1879 in Kent County. 



Now if cold weather was the cause of 

 the appearance of these birds I wish to 

 learn why they have not appeared in 

 the state in other seasons, and in 

 equally cold or colder seasons? The 

 winter of 1893 and 1893 was very severe 

 with deep snows, but no Pine Grosbeaks 

 came to the Great Lake Region, though 

 they were abundant that season in Mass- 

 achusetts, as recorded by reliable 

 observers It is fair to say that with 

 the northern species that visit us there 

 is a cause for these migrations which has 

 not yet been understood and which is 



