1909.] 



THE CAYUGA LAKE BASIN, N. Y. 



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Transient Visitants. 



Holboell's grebe (sometimes in 



winter), 

 Horned grebe (sometimes in 



winter), 

 Common loon (sometimes in 



winter), 

 Bonaparte's gull, 

 Common tern, 

 Red-breasted merganser (a few 



regularly in winter). 

 Mallard (a few regularly in 



winter), 

 Gadwall, 

 Baldpate, 



Green-winged teal, 

 Blue-winged teal. 

 Shoveller, 

 Pintail, 

 Lesser scaup duck (sometimes 



in winter), 

 Ring-necked duck, 

 Buffle-head (sometimes in win- 

 ter), 

 Ruddy duck (sometimes in 



winter), 

 Great blue heron, 

 Black-crowned night heron, 

 Knot, 



Pectoral sandpiper, 

 Least sandpiper. 

 Red-backed sandpiper, 

 Semipalmated sandpiper, 

 Sanderling, 

 Greater yellow-legs, 

 Yellow-legs, 



Solitary sandpiper, 



Black-bellied plover, 



Semipalmated plover, 



Broad-winged hawk (found breed- 

 ing in 1890), 



Duck hawk, 



Pigeon hawk, 



Osprey, 



Yellow-bellied flycatcher, 



Alder flycatcher (breeds locally), 



Rusty blackbird. 



Nelson's sparrow, 



Acadian sharp-tailed sparrow. 



White-crowned sparrow. 



White-throated sparrow, 



Junco (uncommon in winter; 

 breeds locally), 



Lincoln's sparrow. 



Fox sparrow, 



Northern loggerhead shrike, 



Blue-headed vireo (found breed- 

 ing in 1893), 



Black and white warbler (breeds 

 locally), 



Nashville warbler (breeds locally), 



Tennessee warbler, 



Parula warbler (breeds locally). 



Cape May warbler. 



Black-throated blue warbler 

 (breeds locally). 



Myrtle warbler. 



Magnolia warbler (breeds lo- 

 cally), 



Cerulean warbler (breeds on 

 Rowland Island), 



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