NATURE STUDY. 
PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE* 
Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences. 
You. I. February, 1901 . No. 9 . 
Some Winter Birds. 
BY A PINFEATHER ORNITHOEOGIST. 
There was little to interest the bird seeker during the 
months of December and January of this winter. From 
December ist to January 15th the list of the writer, although 
she spent three mornings a week in the field, contained only 
the following birds. It is only fair to say that the list is 
compiled by two members of the family, so it is really what 
four eyes, instead of two, have seen. Here it is: Shrike, 
chickadee, blue-jay, downy woodpecker, goldfinch, 
white-breasted nuthatch, herring gull, crow, tree spar¬ 
row, snow bunting, merganser, robin and partridge. Of 
these, the snow bunting, (Plectrophenax nivalis) seen on 
the nth and 12th of December in the same locality in a 
flock of fifty or more, just after a snow storm, disappeared 
when the snow did on the 13th and have not yet returned to 
any of the localities visited by the writer; nor were they on 
her last winter’s list. 
