Birds of Western New York. 



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721. Troglodytes gedon. House 

 Wren. Summer resident. Breeds. 



722 Troglodyts Hiemalis. Winter 

 Wren. Migrant. Not very common. 



704. Oistothorns Stellaris. Short- 

 billed Marsh Wren. Summer resident 

 and breeds. Local on the lake. 



725. Cistothorus Palustris. Long- 

 billed Marsh Wren. Common summer 

 resident on the lake shore. Breeds. 



Family Oerthidae The Creepers. 



726. Certhia Familiasris Americana. 

 Brown Creeper. Common Emigrant 



and. often seen in winter. 



Family Partdce. The Nuthatches and 

 Tils. 



727. Sitta Carolinensis. White- 

 breasted Nuthatch. Resident. Every- 

 where common. Breeds. 



728. Silta Canadensis. Red-breast- 

 uil Nuthatch. Occasional winter visi- 

 tant. 



735. Parus Atricap llus. Chickadee. 

 Common resident and breeds. 



Family Sylviidae. Kinglets and 

 (fnutcatchers. 



748 Regulus Strapa. Golden- 

 crowned Kinglet. Common migrant. 

 Said to winter here. 



749. Regulus Calendula. Ruby- 

 crowned Kinglet. Common migrant. 



7-51. Polioptila Cserulea. Blue-Gray 

 Gnatcatcher. Very rare summer resi- 

 dent. Know of only one instance of 

 its breeding. A pair reared their young 

 near Coldwater, N.Y., during the sum- 

 mer ef 1890. 



Family Turdidae. The Thrushes, 

 Bluebirds, etc. 



755. Turdus Mustelinus. Wood 

 Thrush. Common summer resident. 

 Breeds . 



756. Turdus Fucescens. Wilson's 



Thrtfsh. Common summer resident. 

 Breeds. 



758a. Turdus Ustulatus Swainsonii. 

 Olive-backed Thrush. Occasional mi- 

 grant and very rare breeder. Reported 

 by F. H. Lattin as nesting at Gaines, 

 Orleans Co., during the summers of 

 1880-81. 



7596. Turdus Aonalaschka; F;allsi. 

 Hermit Thrush. Common migrautand 

 rare breeder. Have found nests at 

 Chili, During 1889-90-82. Also report- 

 ed by L. V. Case as a rare breeder at 

 Naples, Ontario Co. 



761. Merula Migratoria. American 

 Robin. Abundant summer resident. 

 Breeds. 



766. Sialia Sialis. Bluebird. 

 Abundant Summer resident. Breeds. 



SUMMARY. 



Throwing out a few such as Whoop- 

 Crane, Cardinal and others of whose oc- 

 currance the evidence is too slight at 

 present I find 206 species as follows: 



Residents, n. 



Slimmer residents, 99. 



Migrants 67. 



Visitors, 20. 



Stragglers 9. 



Total 206. 



Breeders, 112. 



ADDENDUM. 



465. Empidonax Acadicus. Acadian 

 Flycatcher. Summer resident and 

 breeder, not very common. 



