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83 Slate-colored juncos 
81 Robins 
75 White-crowned sparrows 
70 Black-crowned night herons 
59 Bronzed grackles 
24 Fox sparrows 
18 Brown thrashers 
17 Catbirds 
12 Blue jays 
11 Red-eyed towhees 
10 Chickadees 
10 Oven-birds 
9 Olive-backed thrushes 
Mourning’ doves 
Song sparrows 
Starlings 
Downy woodpeckers 
Cardinals 
Bluebirds 
4 Tree sparrows 
4 Red-shouldered hawks 
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Barn owls 
Brown creepers 
Great blue herons 
Swamp sparrows 
Hermit thrushes 
Tufted titmice 
Gray-cheeked thrushes 
White-crowned sparrows 
Screech owl 
Lincoln sparrow 
White-breasted nuthatch 
Redstart 
Magnolia warbler 
Golden-crowned kinglet 
Harris’s sparrow 
Winter wren 
Yellow-billed cuckoo 
Coot 
Yellow-bellied flycatcher 
Flicker 
House wren 
For this fiscal year I banded 565 birds of 42 species. This is the first 
year in which I have banded less than 1000 birds, and during the 11 years 
from January 1933 to June 1943 I have banded a total of 16,603 individuals. 
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The Mourning Dove 
Sweet is the hermit’s evening bell, 
And sweet the mellow 
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Of the wood thrush; but more I love 
The murmur of the mourning dove. 
Tis he awakes the vague unrest 
That makes me wander east and west— 
The fond, fond bird, tender and true, 
He'll take the very heart from you. 
O whirring wings! O trembling throat 
That puts such heartbreak in a note! 
All through the woodland shadows dim 
My heart is glad to follow him. 
O soft and low!—but Ill no more 
Over the ferny forest floor 
At dawn or dusk to listen lest 
He pluck the heart out of my breast. 
—W. W. CHRISTMAN 
