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-the swan, goose, white and grey, brant, ducks, teals; also the snipe and curloe, and 

 that in great number, but the duck and teal excel, nor so good have I ate in other 

 countries." 



Geographically considered, this county is very favorably located for the abode 

 of a great and diversified number of species of birds, either as resident or visiting. 

 The Delaware river, with tide-water, forming the boundaries for a long stretch on 

 the north-east and south along the border of the county, with numerous creeks 

 emptying into it, furnishes a resort for a great variety of water birds, some of which 

 reside and breed here, while others remain only temporary, in their spring or 

 autumn migration. Among the latter may be included some of the salt water 

 birds, or those that frequent the sea-coast, such as the gulls, terns, sandpipers and 

 ducks. A considerable tract of country, especially in the upper end of the county, 

 in Nockamixon, Haycock, the Rockhills and Milford, being still wooded and com- 

 paratively little changed from its primitive condition, affords the undisturbed and 

 solitary haunts so favorable to many species of birds, and hence in these locations 

 are still found in considerable numbers rapacious birds, warblers, etc., rarely seen 

 in other places. 



In presenting a catalogue of the feathered fauna of the county, it has been 

 considered proper to include in the list, according to the arrangement and nomen- 

 clature of Baird, all the species of birds that are known to have been seen within 

 its limits, embracing as follows: 1st, those resident the entire year; 2d, thosf resi- 

 dent only during the warm and genial months of the year, breeding here but mi- 

 grating south in the autumn, to return again at different periods in the spring; 3d, 

 those resident here in the winter only, migrating further north at the approach of 

 spring: 4th, those making only a temporary stay of a few weeks with us, in their 

 migration north in the spring and south in the fall; and 5th, those that are occa- 

 sional visitors only. 



There are comparatively few species of birds remaining with us the whole year, 

 for even in this climate most of them are excluded from an adequate and proper 

 supply of food during the winter season, for then insect life, upon which many of 

 them feed exclusively, is dormant and unattainable; and our streams, from which 

 some obtain subsistence, are frozen over. They are, hawks, owls, downy wood- 

 pecker, butcher bird, song sparrow, cardinal grossbeak, rose-breasted grossbeak, 

 meadow lark, the common crow to some extent, blue jay, pheasants, partridge, and 

 a few others. Those of the second division are quite numerous, and constitute 

 largely the birds seen here throughout the summer season, among which may be 

 named the cuccoos, the woodpeckers, humming bird, chimney swallow, whippoor- 

 will, night hawk, kingfisher, the family of flycatchers, thrushes, robin, blue bird, 

 black and white creeper, several of the warblers, red start, scarlet tanager, the 

 swallow, purple martin, the vireos, cat bird, the wren, American creeper, finch, 

 thistle bird, sparrows, indigo bird, reed bird, ground robin, cow bird, black birds, orioles, 

 purple grackle, common dove, herons and bitterns, plovers, killdeer, woodcock, 

 snipe and sandpipers, some species of duck, etc. The third division embraces prin- 

 cipally the following birds: Snow bird, shore lark, tree sparrows, nuthatches, the 

 titmouse, titlark, and perhaps a few others. The fourth includes most of the 

 warblers, the kinglets or crowned wrens, some of the flycatchers, lesser red poll, 

 some of the sparrows, fox-colored sparrow, English snipe, some of the ducks, wild 

 pigeon, etc. The fifth takes in the snow bunting, goshawk, the snowy owl, turkey 

 buzzard, the bald eagle, golden eagle, fish eagle, red-cockaded woodpecker, large-billed 

 ■water thrush, rough-winged swallow, wax wing, Bewick's wren, Lapland long spur, 



