Chapter X: Appendix: My Bird List

The following is an alphabetical list of the birds which I have seen in my neighborhood, Springfield, Clark County, Ohio. It is given for the convenience of bird students, who are always interested in the _locale_ of the feathered tribe. The small figure (1) indicates residents all the year round; (2), summer residents; (3), winter residents; (4), migrants.

Bittern, American.²
Blackbird, red-winged.²
Bluebird.² (occasionally winter resident).
Bobolink.²
Bob-white.¹
Bunting, black-throated;
Dickcissel.²
Butcher-bird.⁴
Buzzard, turkey.²

Cat-bird.²
Cedar-bird.⁴
Chat, yellow-breasted.²
Chickadee, black-capped.¹
Cow-bird.²
Creeper, brown.³
Crow.¹
Cuckoo, black-billed.²
yellow-billed.²

Dickcissel.²
Dove, turtle or mourning.¹
Duck, wood.²

Finch, purple.⁴
Flicker.¹
Flycatcher, Acadian.⁴
crested.²
least.⁴
Traill’s.⁴
yellow-bellied.⁴

Gnatcatcher, blue-gray.⁴
Goldfinch, American.¹
Grass-finch.²
Grossbeak, cardinal.¹
rose-breasted.⁴
Grouse, ruffed.¹

Hawk, red-shouldered.³
sharp-shinned.³
sparrow.¹
Heron, great blue.²
green.²
Humming-bird, ruby-throated.²

Indigo-bird.²

Jay, blue.²
Junco; snowbird.³

Killdeer.²
Kingbird.²
Kingfisher, belted.²
Kinglet, golden-crowned.³
ruby-crowned.⁴

Lark, horned or shore.³
meadow.²

Martin, purple.²
Night-hawk.²

Nuthatch, white-breasted.¹
red-breasted.⁴

Oriole, Baltimore.²
orchard.²
Oven bird.²
Owl, screech.¹

Pewee, wood.²
Phœbe; house pewee.²
Pipit, American.³

Redstart.⁴
Robin.² (sometimes in winter).

Sandpiper, spotted.²
Sapsucker, yellow-bellied.⁴
Shrike, loggerhead.⁴
Sparrow, chipping.²
English.¹
field.²
fox.⁴
grasshopper.²
lark.⁴
Savanna.⁴
song.¹
swamp.⁴
tree.³
white-crowned.⁴
white-throated.⁴
Swallow, bank.²
barn.²
cliff or cave.
white-bellied or tree.²
Swift, chimney.²

Tanager, scarlet.²
Titmouse, tufted.¹
Thrasher, brown.²
Thrush, hermit.⁴
Wilson’s or veery.⁴
wood.²
Towhee; chewink.²

Vireo, blue-headed.⁴
red-eyed.²
warbling.²
white-eyed.⁴
yellow-throated.⁴

Warbler, bay-breasted.⁴
black and white.⁴
Blackburnian.⁴
black-poll.⁴
black-throated blue.⁴
black-throated green.⁴
blue-winged.⁴
Canadian.⁴
cerulean.⁴
chestnut-sided.⁴
Connecticut.⁴
golden-winged.⁴
hooded.⁴
Kirtland’s.⁴
magnolia.⁴
Maryland yellow-throat.²
mourning.⁴
myrtle.⁴
Nashville.⁴
palm or red-poll.⁴
Tennessee.⁴
Wilson’s; green black-capped.⁴
worm-eating.⁴
yellow or summer.²
Water-thrush.⁴
Louisiana.⁴
Whippoorwill.²
Woodpecker, downy.¹
golden-winged; flicker.¹
hairy.¹
red-bellied; zebra-bird.³
red-headed.²
yellow-bellied.⁴
Wren, Bewick’s.²
Carolina.¹
house.²
short-billed marsh.⁴
winter.⁴

FOOTNOTES.

[1]Some months after the foregoing had appeared in the columns of a
popular journal I had occasion to modify one assertion. For many
years I had been studying the creeper, and had never seen him
descend a tree or bough head-first until one autumn day while
loitering in the woods. A creeper was hitching up the stem of a
sapling in his characteristic manner; as I drew near, he seemed to
catch a glimpse of a tidbit in his rear, near the sapling’s root. In
his extreme haste to secure it before I drove him away, he wheeled
around, scuttled down over the bark head-foremost a distance of
perhaps two feet, picked up his morsel, and then dashed out of
sight, as if ashamed of his breach of creeper etiquette, probably to
eat humble pie at his leisure. That was in the autumn of 1892. Since
then no creeper, to my knowledge, has been guilty of a similar
offence against the _convenances_.

[2]Long after this statement had appeared in print, Mr. Bradford Torrey
described, in the “Atlantic Monthly,” a similar performance which he
witnessed in Florida; and, rather oddly, myrtle warblers were also
the actors in this instance.

[3]Mr. Eldridge E. Fish, to whom reference has already been made, after
reading this article, which first appeared in a weekly paper,
suggested in a letter that the little warbler could not well remove
the intruded egg without breaking it, which would spoil her nest
altogether. Hence she simply adds another story to her dwelling.
This is doubtless the true explanation.

[4]This is, after all, no exception, for I have since found a number of
turtle-doves’ nests on the ground.

[5]The reader will see, from the facts given in the remainder of the
chapter, that I reckoned without my host in supposing that
woodpeckers usually sleep in cavities of trees. That they sometimes
select such places for roosts cannot be doubted; but that such is
always or even generally their habit the experiments described
farther on conclusively disprove. It is only fair to say that the
rest of the chapter was added long after the foregoing had been
written, and proves how unsafe it is for the naturalist to make
generalizations.

[6]Since this was written, I have found several more nests, and have
even watched the skilful architects at their house-building.

[7]This series of papers, as well as some others in this volume, was
written at the suggestion of Mr. Amos R. Wells, of “The Golden
Rule,” Boston, and was first published in that journal.

[8]This episode is referred to in the chapter on “Nest-Hunting.”

[9]This article, under the title of “Lowell and the Birds” was first
published in the “New England Magazine,” for November, 1891, shortly
after the poet’s death. Copyright credit is here given to the
publisher of that magazine.

[10]The one noted in the chapter on “The Wood-Pewee.” As the poem on
this bird is quoted in that article, it has been purposely omitted
from this collection of passages.

INDEX.

A
Accentor, 199.
Addison, quoted, 168.
Allen, J. A., quoted, 79-80.

B
Bird baths, 15, 38, 39, 51, 205.
Bird colonies, 42-44.
Bird migration, 64, 76-86.
Bird plumage, 87-91.
Bird roosts, 116-126.
Bird sadness, 207, 208.
Bird song, my creed regarding, 13, 14.
Birds of Paradise, 167.
Blackbirds, 180, 249, 258.
crow, 29, 34, 35, 63.
red-winged, 29, 65, 120, 125.
yellow-headed, 235.
Bluebirds, 28, 88, 165, 190, 209, 249, 250.
Bobolink, 200, 247, 255, 256.
Bolles, Frank, 29.
Brewster, William, 84-86.
Browning, Robert, quoted, 150.
Browning, Mrs. E. B., quoted, 169.
Bryant, W. C., quoted, 81.
Bunting, black-throated, 112.
cow, 96, 97, 125, 178, 180, 199.
towhee, 66, 89, 93, 113, 156, 163, 200.
Burns, Robert, quoted, 207.
Burroughs, John, 29, 165, 211.

C
Cat-bird, 24-26, 82, 125, 143, 259-261.
Chapman, Frank M., 80.
Chat, yellow-breasted, 102, 154, 193-4.
Chewink, 62.
Chickadee, 42, 44, 217, 250.
Coleridge, quoted, 208.
Collectors, 214.
Creeper, brown, 15, 17-20, 44, 203, 219.
Cross-bill, 209.
Crow, 154, 251.
Cuckoo, yellow-billed, 174, 187.

D
Dove, turtle, 13, 63, 120, 172, 173.

E
Emerson, 42, 52, 244.
quoted, 10, 11, 49, 141, 158, 225.

F
Falcon, 252.
Finch, cut-throat, 206.
purple, 72.
Fish, Eldridge E., 94, 97, 209.
Flicker, yellow-hammer, 57, 124, 162, 205.
Flycatcher, Traill’s, 85.

G
Gibson, W. H., quoted, 92.
Gnat-catcher, blue-gray, 144-146, 195.
Goldfinch, 74, 104-109, 113, 187, 232, 235.
Grackle, purple (_see_ Crow blackbird), 35.
Grass-finch, 68, 88, 112, 118.
Grossbeak, Brazilian, 232.
cardinal, 46, 62, 90, 113, 156, 232.
evening, 71.
rose-breasted, 64, 73.
Grouse, ruffed, 166.

H
Hawk, hen, 250.
sparrow, 210.
Heron, great blue, 237.
green, 155, 181-183.
Howells, W. D., quoted, 11.
Hummers, 165.

I
Indigo-bird, 87, 102, 153, 235.

J
Jay, blue, 28, 196, 210, 234.
Juncos (_see_ Snow-birds), 51, 53-56, 82, 118, 219, 229.

K
Killdeer, 28, 65, 99, 183.
King-bird; bee-martin, 197.
Kingfisher, Australian, 234.
belted, 184.
Kinglets, 42, 166.
golden-crowned, 36, 44, 81, 204, 209.
ruby-crowned, 91, 204.

L
Langille, J. H., quoted, 166.
Lanier, Sidney, quoted, 14-15, 133.
Larcom, Lucy, quoted, 68.
Lark, 247, 252, 253.
meadow, 65, 84, 112, 118, 125, 173.
Longfellow, quoted, 164.
Lowell, 40, 45.
quoted, 113, 128-9, 130, 131, 175, 198, 222, 243-261.

M
Martin, house or purple, 241.
Mexican stars, 166.
Milton, quoted, 200.
Montreal, 226.
Mount Royal, Canada, 227-231.

N
Nests, 20, 92-109, 169-185.
Night-hawk, 135-140.
Nonpareil, 212, 232.
Nuthatch, white-breasted, 15, 29, 31, 35, 42, 45, 47, 212.

O
Oriole, Baltimore, 64, 99, 113, 249, 257, 260.
orchard, 153, 180.
Oven-bird, 142.
Owls, 121, 238.

P
Parrots, 236.
Pelicans, 237.
Pewee, wood, 114, 115, 127-134, 190, 196, 220, 244.
Pheasant, silver, 234.
Phœbe, 69, 126, 189, 220, 250.

R
Redstart, 74, 91, 230.
Robin, 27, 65, 73, 112, 120, 200, 211, 233, 246, 249, 250, 251, 259.

S
Sandpiper, 254.
Sangster, Margaret E., quoted, 93.
Shakespeare, quoted, 212.
Snow-bird (_see_ Junco), 49, 51, 250.
Sparrow, bush, 12, 68, 88, 99, 102-104, 105, 106, 109, 112, 120.
chipping, 69, 88, 210.
English, 239.
fox, 67.
grasshopper, 156.
lark, 112, 118.
song, 13, 15, 46, 56, 58, 60-62, 63, 65, 66, 114, 119, 153, 164,
229.
swamp, 222.
tree, 15, 49-51, 53, 55, 56, 59-60, 116.
white-crowned, 90.
white-throated, 120, 224, 233, 237.
Starling, English, 232.
Swallow, bank, 98.
Swan, 251, 253.

T
Tanager, scarlet, 65, 89, 213.
Thrasher, brown, 14, 64, 81, 82, 94, 120, 121, 143, 148-151, 190, 202,
206.
Titmouse, black-capped, 15, 31, 32, 64, 113, 180.
crested, 20, 32, 35, 45.
Thrush, Wilson’s, 227, 228.
wood, 95, 122, 156, 159, 170-172, 179, 190, 206, 259.
Torrey, Bradford, 39, 134, 149, 223.

V
Vireo, blue-headed, 71-72.
red-eyed, 72, 85, 177, 230.
warbling, 99, 152, 196.

W
Wallace, A. R., quoted, 167.
Warblers, 38, 82, 85, 86, 90, 217.
bay-breasted, 74.
Blackburnian, 220.
black-throated blue, 220.
black-throated green, 220, 221, 230.
blue-winged, 70.
cerulean, 114, 220.
chestnut-sided, 114, 220, 230.
creeping, 220, 229.
hooded, 83, 146-148, 199.
Kentucky, 156.
Maryland yellow-throat, 85, 91, 113, 153.
mourning, 83.
myrtle, 38, 39, 220.
parula, 220.
summer, 96-98.
worm-eating, 144.
Water-thrush, Louisiana, 158.
Waxbills, 231.
Weaver-birds, 236.
Whippoorwill, 135, 149.
Wood-dove, 254.
Woodpeckers, 17, 42, 124, 248.
downy, 15, 46, 163.
hairy, 32, 46.
red-bellied; zebra-bird, 21.
red-headed, 32, 36-38, 89, 123, 125, 142, 186, 197, 199, 202.
yellow-bellied; sap-sucker, 29, 30.
Wren, Bewick’s, 39, 64, 69, 143.
Carolina, 41, 113, 157.

Z
Zoölogical Garden, a visit to, 231-239.

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