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Birds of a Small City Park 
N the east a small park covering a couple of city blocks. On 
() the west a sidewalk-charted prairie. This is briefly the Indian 
Boundary Park region. A couple of large apartment buildings 
face the east end of the park. A row of cottonwoods obstructs the view 
of the prairie at the west end. An asphalt street and bungalows bound 
the south end, and to the north are some truck-gardens with green- 
houses beyond. 3 
Walking west through the park one may pass, successively, the duck- 
pond, the children’s bathing pool and playground, a broad stretch of 
lawn with a large tree in the center, a pergola, another narrower lawn 
partly occupied by tennis courts, then a sidewalk, and a road which has 
been in various stages of upheaval. The park, which is about three years 
of age, shows an average variety in park planting and an unusual excel- 
lence of landscape gardening. When we arrived in this neighborhood in 
March the fields west of the cottonwoods were quite marshy. The 
prairie, as I have already mentioned, is plotted with sidewalks, which 
stand rather high above the level of the ground. 
In the duck-pond opposite the apartment buildings is an islet covered 
with cat-tails. There Mrs. Fulton and I observed for several days a red- 
wing who we hoped might settle down for the summer. The pond is 
abundantly stocked with fish. Probably this is the cause of our having 
the kingfisher as an early morning visitor. Across the pond and over the 
lawns to the north the barn swallows skim. In the truck gardens to the 
north we frequently saw the killdeer, and there also the kingbird has a 
perch. As we walk along the north edge, in an area just hidden from the 
playground by trees and bushes, the warblers flit during their spring mi- 
gration. Of these I will append my list, with notations: 
Wilson’s, abundant 
Waterthrush, abundant 
Yellow, abundant 
Chestnut-sided, common 
Magnolia, common 
Cape May, fairly common 
Palm, fairly common 
Redstart, fairly common 
Myrtle 
Maryland yellow-throat 
Blackburnian 
Black-throated green 
Bay-breasted 
