8 THE AUDUBON BU L LS Tete 
get off to go a-birding there are compensations and opportunities 
in staying at home and letting the birds come to them. The list 
of forty-four different species (not of course including the Eng- 
lish Sparrow that I would fain be rid of) is here added, with such 
comments as may be of value. 
Twelve months of the year: 
Downy Woodpecker Cardinal Grosbeak 
Hairy Woodpecker Tufted Titmouse (April 1918 to Oc- 
Red-headed Woodpecker tober 1919) 
Bluejay — 
In the winter only: 
Slate-colored Junco Red-breasted Nuthatch 
Brown Creeper (eats suet only) Black-capped Chickadee 
White-breasted Nuthatch Purple Finch 
Frequent feeders during one winter only, and not always 
the same winter: 
Redpoll Montana Junco 
American Goldfinch Myrtle Warbler (into January) 
Tree Sparrow : Hudsonian Chickadee : 
Only in the winter and then most irregularly and occasion- 
ally: 
Crow (suet only) Golden-crowned Kinglet 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 
In the summer, often bringing their young to the shelf: 
Mourning Dove Rose-breasted Grosbeak 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker American Redstart 
Cowbird Brown Thrasher 
Baltimore Oriole Catbird 
Bronzed Grackle House Wren 
Song Sparrow American Robin 
Rare feeders in the summer, some of them only seen once: 
Flicker Black and White Warbler 
Crested Flycatcher Veery 
Black-throated Blue Warbler Olive-backed Thrush 
f : Hermit Thrush 
In the migration seasons only: 
peep ow. } more numerous in the Spring than in the Fall 
White-throated Sparrow 
White-crowned Sparrow 
To these forty-four may be 
added those which (1) have 
fed more or less frequently on 
the ground immediately be- 
neath the shelf from seeds 
which fell from it, and those 
which (2) have bathed in or 
drunk from the bath which is 
Peete NDEZVDUS nT THE FOOD SHELF not ten feet from the shelf. 

(1) and (2) Evening Grosbeak, Magnolia Warbler, Wood Thrush. - 
(1) Searlet Tanager 
(2) Solitary Vireo 
There are also forty-two other species which have been seen 
in my yard, all the way from the Geese that have flown low over- 
