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Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



I have some interesting visitors to my school-room windows at times. 

 At one window, which is a favorite place with the children for cracking 

 nuts, the following species are often seen : 



Sitta carolinensis, Gmelin. — White-bellied Nuthatch. 



Lophophanes bicolor, Bp. — Tufted Titmouse. 



Centurus carolinus, Bp. — Bed-bellied Woodpecker. 



Picus pubescens, Linn. — Downy Woodpecker. 



And on one occasion — 



Picus Villosus, L. — Hairy Woodpecker — Which is somewhat sur- 

 prising, as he is the shyest Woodpecker we have. 



On one occasion a smart specimen of the Tufted Titmouse was seen 

 hanging head downward from a crossbar of the window-sash with half 

 a walnut in his bill. Such acrobatic exhibitions are not uncommon at 

 my windows. I have this to sa} T , to the credit of our boys, that at this 

 school I have yet to see the first stone thrown at a bird. — E. R. Quick. 

 School District No. 12, Brookville, Indiana. 



The winter of 1880-81 will long be a memorable one in this section, 

 both for its severity and its length; and the following list of birds 

 observed during that season by Mr. E. R. Quick, is therefore of 

 exceptional interest. In the words of the author, " It proves that 

 migration is not governed so much by severity of the weather as by 

 presence (or absence) of the food of many species, and disproves the 

 general supposition that in severe winters there is a paucity of birds." 



"The notes were all taken within a few miles of Brookville, Indiana. 



"The time comprised in the term winter is from the 15th of Dec, 

 1880, until the 5th of February, 1881, when the Robins and Black- 

 birds began to return." 



The nomenclature has been revised to correspond with Mr. Ridg- 

 way's National Museum list of 1881. — (Ed.) 



Winter Birds of 1880 and 1881 on the Whitewater* 



Sialia sialis, Haldeman. — Bluebird. — Common all winter. 



Regulus satrapa, Lichtenstein. — Golden-crowned Kinglet. — Noticed 

 at intervals throughout the winter. 



Lophophanes bicolor. — Bonaparte. — Tufted Titmouse. — Common. 

 Frequenting the door yard for crumbs and nuts placed out for this and 

 other species. 



* Read before the Brookville Society of Natural History, March, 1881. 



