There are several species that are customarily grouped under the heading "permanent residents", the term implying that these birds do not travel but remain throughout the year in one locality. Among these are the cardinal, the tufted titmouse (_Baeolophus bicolor_), the wren tit (_Chamaea jasciata_), the Carolina wren, the house finch (_Carpodacus mexicanus frontalis_), the bobwhite (_Colinus virginianus_), the California quail (_Lophortyx californica_), and the ruffed grouse (_Bonasa umbellus_). Each species may be present constantly throughout the year, although in the northern part of the range there is probably a slight withdrawal of the breeding birds in winter. The individuals to be seen at that season, therefore, may not always be the same as those observed during the summer. It is certain, however, that these species do not regularly perform extensive journeys. While the blue jay is disposed to be secretive, it is such a showy and noisy bird that is not likely to escape notice. In the vicinity of Washington, D. C., as in many other places, it is present the year round, but at the end of September or early in October when the weather is becoming cooler, troops of jays are sometimes seen working southward through the trees. A corresponding northward movement occurs again in May. This is unquestionably a migration to and from some winter range, but its extent or significance is not now known. Some light is being shed on the matter, however, through the records of banded birds, and these eventually will fill in a more perfect picture of the movements of this species. One jay, banded on September 14, 1923, at Waukegan, Ill., was killed at Peruque, Mo., on November 15 of the same year; another, banded at Winnetka, Ill., on June 16, 1925, was retaken at Sulphur Kock, Ark., the following December 10; a third, banded on May 6, 1925, at Whitten, Iowa, was recaptured at Decatur, Ark., on January 22, 1926. These three birds unquestionably had made a flight that had every appearance of being a true migration to winter quarters in Missouri and Arkansas. The black-capped chickadee is apparently resident in many places, but occasionally in winter it invades the range of the southern Carolina chickadee (_Penthestes carolinensis_) and in northern Canada it is regularly a migrant. In the coastal plain between Washington, D. C., and the Atlantic Ocean, the white-breasted nuthatch is usually absent during the summer, nesting at that season in the higher, or piedmont, country. Late in fall, however, it appears in fair abundance in the wooded bottoms, remaining at the lower levels until the following March or April.