438 APPENDIX. 



Sea-side Finches,'* Sharp-shinned Hawks, Sharp-tailed Finches,^^ 

 Short-billed Marsh Wrens, Short-eared Owls, Snow-birds,^ Solitary 

 Vireos,'^ Song Sparrows, Sparrow Hawks, Swamp Sparrows, To- 

 whee Buntings, Traill's Flycatchers,^ Warbling Vireos, Water 

 '• Thrushes," ^ Whippoorwills, White-bellied Nuthatches, White- 

 breasted Swallows, White-eyed Vireos, Wild Flgeons, Wood 

 Pewees, Wood Thrushes, Telloiu-hellied Flycatchers], Yellow- 

 bellied Woodpeckers,^ YeUow-billed Cuckoos, Yellow-breasted 

 Chats ?,^ Yellow-throated Vii'eos, Yellow Warblers, and Yellow- 

 winged Sparrows (107). The following other birds (of whom the 

 list is probably incomplete) also breed here : Ai'ctic Terns, Bit- 

 terns, Black (or Dusky) Ducks, Carolina Rails, Coot^ (Ftdica 

 avierica?ia), Great Blue Herons, Green Herons, '• Killdeer " 

 Plover, Laughing Gulls, Least Bitterns,* Least Terns, Little Blue 

 Herons ?,* Loons,^ Night Herons, Pinnated Grouse ^ (or Heath 

 Hens), Piping Plover, Quail, Ruffed Grouse (or " Partridges " of 

 N. E.), Roseate Terns, Solitary Sandj^ipers,^ Spotted Sandpipers, 

 Summer (or Wood) Ducks, Summer " Yellow-legs," Teal ?,^ UiDland 

 Plover, Virginia Rails, " Willets," Wilson's Terns, and Woodcock 

 (29). (Those italicized are very rare, at least as summer resi- 

 dents.) t 



Note. The eggs of all the above birds form a nearly or quite 

 complete collection of the birds' eggs of Massachusetts. The Pine 

 Finches and Snow Buntings have been known to breed (altogether 



^ (Very) rare in summer so far to in Massacliusetts ; and in respect to 



the southward. the Carolina Wren, Northern Water 



■* Very much more common to the Thrush, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, 



southward of New England. Goshawk, Pigeon Hawk, Coot (Fulica), 



^ Confined in summer to western and Teal (Blue-winged) the accumu- 



Massachusetts. lated evidence is barely sufficient to 



^ See p. 404. suggest that they may have occasion- 



t In accordance with the general ally done so. Hence it would be 



plan of editorial work outlined in my safest to omit all these names from 



introduction, the above list has been the above categ-ory. Very doubtful is 



reprinted almost exactly as it stood in it, also, i£ the Black-throated Bunting-, 



the first edition. Were it to be recast Short-eared Owl. Great Blue Heron, 



our present knowledge of the sub- Killdeer Plover, or Willet continues to 



ject would warrant many important breed regularly in Massachusetts, al- 



changes. Thus, there are no longer though all of them were more or less 



good reasons for believing that the common summer residents fifty years 



Sea-side Finch, Lincoln's Finch, Snow ago. If included in the list, their names 



Bunting-, Little Blue Heron. Solitary should certainly stand in italics ; as 



Sandpiper, or Summer Yellow-legs should the name of the Loon, whose 



has ever nested or is likely to nest eggs can now be taken only on the 



