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visit us in small numbers, generally after their breeding season 

 is over. In this group may also be placed the Shearwaters and 

 Petrels, some of which are known to nest in the Antarctic Regions 

 during our winter. In the spring they migrate northward and 

 pass the summer off our coasts. 



List of Summer Visitants. 



Gull-billed Tern. American Egret. 



Royal Tern. Little Blue Heron. 



Forster's Tern. Wilson's Plover. 



Sooty Tern. Oyster-catcher. 



Black Skimmer. Turkey Vulture. 



Greater Shearwater. Red-bellied Woodpecker. 



Audubon's Shearwater. Summer Tanager. 



Sooty Shearwater. Carolina Chickadee. 



Wilson's Petrel. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. 



Mockingbird. 



IV. Winter Residents. — Winter residents, like suminer resi- 

 dents, may arrive long before and remain long after the season 

 which gives them their naine. Our Junco, or Snowbird, for 

 example, comes from the north in September and remains until 

 April, but is a typical winter resident. That is, it arrives in the 

 fall and after passing the entire winter with us returns to its 

 more northern summer home in the spring. 

 List of Winter Residents. 



Holboell's Grebe. 

 Horned Grebe. 

 Loon. 



Red-throated Loon.- 

 Razor-billed Auk. 

 Kittiwake Gull. 

 Glaucous Gull. 

 Great Black-backed Gul 

 Herring Gull. 

 Ring-billed Gull. 

 Green-winged Teal. 

 American Golden-eye. 

 Buffle-head. 

 Old-Squaw. 

 King Eider. 

 American Scoter. 

 White-winged Scoter. 

 Surf Scoter. 

 Purple Sandpiper. 



Rough-legged Hawk. 

 Saw-whet Owl. 

 Horned Lark. 

 Prairie Horned Lark. 

 -American Crossliill. 

 Redpoll. 

 Pine Siskin. 

 Snowflake. 

 Lapland Longspur. 

 Ipswich Sparrow. 

 White-throated Sparrow. 

 Tree Sparrow. 

 Junco. 



Northern Shrike. 

 Myrtle Warbler. 

 Winter Wren. 

 Brown Creeper. 

 Canadian Nuthatch. 

 Golden-crowned Kinglet. 



V. Winter Visitants. — Winter visitants are birds which may 

 or mav not visit us during the winter. As a rule, their presence 



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