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and often confusing fall suits, and many new birds were added to the list, 
including the Harris’s, Henslow’s and Baird’s sparrows. 
Sept. 238 brought the greatest flight of birds we had ever seen in Jack- 
son park, fall or spring. In a few hours more than 50 species were observed 
and a complete survey of the park would undoubtedly have been exception- 
ally rewarding. Great numbers of warblers, thrushes, and sparrows, includ- 
ing our first adult Harris’s, were in the day’s list. Sixteen species of warb- 
lers were observed and the first large numbers of juncos, white-throated 
and white-crowned sparrows. Particularly large numbers of myrtle warb- 
lers—about 200—were everywhere and they continued to be numerous 
throughout the autumn. The next day the red-breasted nuthatch, hermit 
thrushes, 25 northern water-thrushes, and an immature Harris’s sparrow 
were seen. During the fall we saw in the park five of those seldom-seen 
Harris’s. Sept. 29 brought an amazing flight of sparrows to the vegetable 
garden and other spots in the park. Many warblers and thrushes were still 
present. 
On Oct. 12 many sparrows still were in the park; we also saw the Car- 
olina and winter wrens and the rusty blackbird. During these fall days an 
interesting sight was the huge flocks of starlings—as many as 750 were 
seen in a short time—whirling through intricate, leaderless formations. 
On Oct. 20 we added to our Jackson park list the white-breasted nut- 
hatch, a usually common bird which we had not found in the park during 
two years. 
To add to our examples of the always fresh interest of ‘Jackson park 
birding, on Oct. 24, in a rest period during the stages of this article, a short 
walk resulted in our seeing five evening grosbeaks and a female baldpate. 
Following is our Jackson park list of species: 
Common loon; grebe: horned and pied-billed; heron: great blue, little blue, green, 
and black-crowned night; Canada goose; duck: mallard, black, pintail, blue-winged teal, 
wood, canvasback, greater scaup, lesser scaup, goldeneye, old-squaw, American scoter, 
ruddy, hooded merganser, American merganser, red-breasted merganser, and baldpate; 
hawk: sharp-shinned, Cooper’s, red-tailed, marsh, sparrow, and pigeon; coot; killdeer; 
black-bellied plover; spotted sandpiper; sanderling; gull: herring, ring-billed, and Bona- 
parte; tern: common, Forster’s, and black; mourning dove; cuckoo: yellow-billed and 
black-billed; screech owl; nighthawk; chimney swift; ruby-throated hummingbird; king- 
fisher; flicker; woodpecker: red-headed, hairy, and downy; yellow-bellied sapsucker; 
flycatcher: crested, alder, least, olive-sided, phoebe, and wood pewee; barn swallow; 
purple martin; blue jay; crow; nuthatch: white-breasted and red-breasted; brown creep- 
er; wren: house, winter, and Carolina; catbird; brown thraSher; robin; thrush: wood, 
hermit, olive-backed, gray-cheeked, veery, and willow; bluebird; blue-gray gnatcatcher; 
kinglet: golden-crowned and ruby-crowned; cedar waxwing; starling; vireo: yellow- 
throated, blue-headed, red-eyed, Philadelphia, and warbling; warbler: black and white, 
golden-winged, Tennessee, orange-crowned, Nashville, yellow, magnolia, Cape May, black- 
throated blue, myrtle, black-throated green, Blackburnian, chestnut-sided, bay-breasted, 
black-poll, pine, prairie, palm, Connecticut, mourning, Wilson’s, Canada, oven-bird, nor- 
thern water-thrush, yellowthroat, and redstart; English sparrow; eastern meadowlark; 
blackbird: red-winged and rusty; Baltimore oriole; bronzed grackle; cowbird; Scarlet 
tanager; cardinal; rose-breasted grosbeak; indigo bunting; purple finch; evening gros- 
beak; common redpoll; goldfinch; red-eyed towhee; junco: sSlate-colored and Oregon; 
sparrow: Savannah, Henslow’s, tree, chipping, clay-colored, field, Harris’s, white-crowned, 
white-throated, fox, Lincoln’s, swamp, song, and Baird’s. 
