SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF BIRD COUNTS IN THE U. S. 19 



bunting, 1 ; grasshopper sparrow, 1 ; song sparrow, 2; meadowlark, 1; 

 red-headed woodpecker, 1; kingbird, 2; field sparrow, 1; Carolina 

 wren, 1; Maryland yellow-throat, 1; screech owl, 1; towhee, 1; 

 English sparrow, 6; and last, but not least, a flourishing colony of 

 70 pairs of purple martins ; in all a total of 24 species and 135 pairs 

 on the 5 acres — the 1915 record for density of bird population. 1 



The report of the 1914 bird counts credited Chevy Chase, Md., as 

 having the highest record for that year. This same area in 1915 

 showed a satisfactory increase in the number of nesting birds, the 

 kinds and the pairs of each being as follows: Southern robin, 19 

 Carolina chickadee, 2; tufted titmouse, 2; white-breasted nuthatch 

 3 ; cedar waxwing, 2 ; cardinal, 2 ; song sparrow, 12 ; field sparrow, 1 

 goldfinch, 1; meadowlark, 1; blue jay, 3; red-headed woodpecker, 3 

 downy woodpecker, 1; screech owl, 1; bob-white, 1: purple grackle 

 13; flicker, 3; mourning dove, 1; chipping sparrow, 9; towhee, 1 

 brown thrasher, 4; chimney swift, 3; house wren, 14; oven-bird, 1: 

 yellow warbler, 1; Maryland yellow-throat, 2; redstart, 2; catbird 

 IT; wood thrush, 14; yellow-throated vireo, 4; red-eyed vireo, 11: 

 kingbird, 1 ; crested flycatcher, 1 ; scarlet tanager, 2 ; indigo bunting, 

 1; orchard oriole, 1; Baltimore oriole, 1; wood pewee, 8; yellow- 

 billed cuckoo, 1; English sparrow, 19; a total of 40 species and 

 189 pairs on 23 acres. A half-acre lot in this area belonging to 

 Dr. S. W. Mellott was the home during 1915 of 20 pairs of birds 

 representing 14 different species, 4 wood thrush nests being the 

 greatest number of any one kind. 



A few miles from Indianapolis, Ind., is a tract of 44 acres, known 

 as Woollen's Garden, set aside in 1897 as a bird sanctuary, one of 

 the first — if not the first — of the kind in the United States. In 1909 

 this was deeded to the city of Indianapolis to be maintained perpetu- 

 ally as a public park where bird life should be carefully protected. 

 It consists of 12 acres of cleared and cultivated land and the remain- 

 der of heavily wooded hills and ravines. During 1915 the following 

 pairs of birds nested within its limits : Robin, 4 ; crested flycatcher, 

 8; wood pewee, 4; wood thrush, 10; tufted titmouse, 8; cerulean 

 warbler, 10; yellow warbler, 2; redstart, 3; Kentucky warbler, 2; 

 hooded warbler, 1 ; worm-eating warbler, 1 ; yellow-breasted chat, 1 ; 

 Maryland yellow-throat, 2 ; sycamore warbler, 1 ; oven-bird, 11 ; red- 

 headed woodpecker, 1; downy woodpecker, 4; bluebird, 1; phcebe, 

 3 ; blue jay, 2 ; catbird, 2 ; brown thrasher, 1 ; bronzed grackle, 2 ; field 

 sparrow, 4; chipping sparrow, 5; song sparrow, 2; vesper sparrow, 

 2; grasshopper sparrow, 2; red-eyed vireo, 10; warbling vireo, 3; 

 yellow-throated vireo, 3; cardinal, 3; flicker, 2; indigo bunting, 7; 



1 Mr. Grosvenor gives an interesting account of the birds enumerated on Wild Acres, 

 in Bird-Lore, XVIII, 77-84, March-April, 1916. 



