Bird Studies in Lorain County, Ohio. 5 1 



recently arrived in the county. There may be another 

 below Elyria on Black River. 



Winter Wren; one recorded in Ely park at Elyria. 



Brown Creeper, 6; there is probably one or more in 

 every large woods, and from one to four in each stream 

 gorge. The number given represents only those actually 

 recorded. 



White-breasted Nuthatch, 50; in all woods and in 

 town. Undoubtedly this is a low estimate for this species. 



Red-breasted Nuthatch, 3; one at Chance Creek, one 

 on Black River below Elyria, one at Oak Point. Others are 

 likely about. 



Tufted Titmouse, 48; in almost every woods. Probably 

 more in winter. 



Chickadee, 70; more generally distributed than the last. 

 Common in town. 



Golden-crowned Kinglet, 10; recorded only for Chance 

 Creek, Black River and Oberlin. Probably more numerous. 



Robin; one regularly winters in Oberlin. 



Bluebird; one or more found every winter of the study, 

 usually in Obelin, but there is one record for Chance Creek. 



To this list must be added two accidental records. 



Horned Grebe, one found on the streets of Oberlin in an 

 exhausted condition, its gizzard crowded full of small rub- 

 ber bands. It died. 



Brunnich's Murre, four captured at Lorain, December 25, 

 1896, by Mr. A. Hengartner. 



Others than these might be recorded, but their occurrence 

 would not fall within the limits set. 



^Eliminating, for the purpose of determining the census 

 of the region covered, all but the species which are regularly 

 found every winter, or almost every winter, there remain fifty 

 species. Among these fifty there are several whose 

 numbers can be pretty accurately given for the ground cov- 

 ered by these five routes, because they are confined to known 

 places. These are: 



American Herring Gull, 17; on Lake Erie only. 



