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Name of Species 



Olive-backed Thrush . 



Hermit Thrush 



American Robin 



Bluebird 



Ring-necked Pheasant. 



Kumlein's Gull 



Mockingbird 



Brewster's Warbler . . . 



Hoary Redpoll 



Migrant Shrike 



Shoveller 



American Widgeon . . . 

 Philadelphia Vireo . . . 

 Northern Phalarope. . . 



Iceland Gull 



Heath Hen 



List of Birds observed by 

 Lidian E. Bridge, West Med- 

 ford, Mass., from January 1, 

 1907, to January 1, 1908. 



Locality 



Waverly 



Middlesex Fells 



Medford 



Medford 



Medford 



Boston 



Medford 



Arboretum . . . . 



Nahant 



Medford 



Middlesex Fells 

 Middlesex Fells 



May 1 8 

 April 7 

 Mar. ry 

 Mar. i8 

 Feb. 17 

 Dec. 7 

 Nov. 20 

 June 4 

 Mar. 16 

 April 14 

 Nov. 30 

 Dec. 8 



List of Birds observed by 

 James L. Peters, Jamaica 

 Plain, from January 1, 

 1907, to January 1, 1908. 



Familiar Bird Names 



The current discussion in Bird-Lore ought to bear satisfying fruit for everyday 

 bird-naming. The writer offers a few criticisms as regards the suggestions of both Mr. 

 Dawson and Mr. Perkins (as given in late issues of Bird-Lore). .\s for one of the 

 titles in question, one might make a composite, and call the 'Louisiana Water Thrush' 

 henceforth the Southern Water Thrush. Mr. Dawson's 'Western' Tanager is too in- 

 clusive : there are other western Tanagers than that so misleadingly called the 'Lou- 

 isiana' Tanager. How would 'Red-headed Tanager' do? 



Now, as to the titles suggested by Mr. Perkins: Can we not let 'Tree' Sparrow alone ? 

 The term 'Canadian' adds nothing; and is not distinctively definitive. Let Field Sparrow 

 stand. The name is good; and ought to stand by right of prescription. Why change 

 'Nashville' Warbler to 'Birch' ? The latter title can have but a merely local appropri- 

 ateness. The other suggestions by Mr. Perkins, in March-April Bird-Lore, are capital. 



As a promoter of discussion, merely, the writer cites a number of possibly helpful 

 changes in our popular bird-nomenclature: 



The indigenous Rough-legged Hawks: 

 Northern and Southern Rough-legs. 



Kamchatkan Cuckoo: Siberian Cuckoo. 



Arkansas King-bird: Western King-bird. 



Restore Acadian Flycatcher. 



Eastern Meadowlark (as a matter of pure 

 distinction). 



Mexican Cross-bill: Sierra Cross-bill (or, 

 Bendire Cross-bill, or Mountain Cross- 

 bill). 



Tree Sparrow: Winter Sparrow. 



Arctic Towhee: Spotted Towhee. 



Pyrrhuloxia: Bull-finch. 



Bohemian Wax wing: Greater Waxwing. 



Prothonotary Warbler: River Warbler. 



Nashville Warbler: Brown-capped War- 

 bler. 



Tennessee Warbler: Gray Warbler; (or. 

 Green-gray Warbler). 



Blackburnian Warbler: Orange Warbler. 



Sycamore Warbler: White-browed War- 

 'bler. 



Connecticut Warbler: White-eyed War- 

 bler. 



MacGillivray Warbler: Tolmie Warbler. 



Canadian Warbler: Vested Warbler. 



Sprague Pipit: Prairie Pipit. 



American Robin: Eastern Robin. 



Holboell Grebe: Red-necked Grebe. 



.\ni: Tick-Bird. 



Leucosticte: Rosy Finch. 



Junco: (let it stand, please, and convert 

 the hyper-sentimentally nick-named 

 'Snow-flake' into plain, 'Snow-bird.') 



Grass-hopper Sparrow: Sibilant Sparrow. 



Cinereous Sparrow: Ashy Sparrow. 



Hepatic Tanager: Ruddy Tanager. 



Verdin: Golden Tit. 



Siberian Yellow Wagtail: Alaskan Wag- 

 tail. 



A number of the above suggestions are in no sense original. They are collated, 

 here, to provoke discussion. — P. B. Peabody, Blue Rapids, Kansas. 



