OF AN ORNITHOLOGIST. 47 
and residents, or into the list of irregular and occasional 
visitors. The proportion of rare species to common ones, 
of irregular visitors to the regular, is perhaps well exhib- 
ited by the subjoined tabular résumé: 
Species common A è š 14 
rare í : n f $ i . ` ; 45 
py resident à > i z . . ‘ š s — 
g 
A irregular i in their visits (and occuring -A winter only). 7 
of summer that ee ae pum ga in w 4 
Total of Winter Birds è é 4 59 
The following table further shows what families are re- 
presented, and the number of species of each, as well as 
the number resident and migrant, rare and common. 
Common, y its eae Migrant. 
Falconidæ (Hawks) . . 
Strigide (Owls) s e 
icidæ ( Woodpe eckers) 
Alcedinidee (Kingfishers) . 
urdi rushes, etc. 2) 
Bombyeilidi E aiis 
Laniadæ (Shri rikes) 
’ 
rthiadæ (Creepers) 
Sittide uthatehes) 
mice è 
in Finches, etc. y 
free one Troupials) 
Corvid ws and Jays) , 
amh ne! Grouse meg 
; Perdicidæ ( : 
1 Anatide (Ducks) k d 
18. Colymbidæ (Divers) . . 
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The whole number of families represented, as may be 
seen from the above exhibit, is eighteen; only five (Fal- 
conide, Strigide, Fringillide, Anatide, Colymbide) have 
each more than three species, and excepting those of one 
family (Fri ngillidee), are all to be reckoned among the 
rarer kinds. The Fringillide, or Finch family, has the 
greatest number, and probably in individuals outnumbers 
all the others together; it has, however, but a single resi- 
