The Massachusetts Audubon Society's Bird-Lists 



THE Massachusetts Audubon Society continues to develop in its members 

 a practical interest in birds by supplying them with blanks on which 

 to record the species observed during the year in Massachusetts. The 

 ten best lists received by the secretary of the Society for the year ending December 

 31, 1908, were made by the following members: Lidian E. Bridge, West Med- 

 ford, 219 species; James L. Peters, Jamaica Plain, 218 species; Barron Brainerd, 

 Brookline, 211 species; Richard M. Markle, 187 species; Joseph Kittredge, Jr., 

 179 species; Charles Schweinfurth, 142 species; Anna K. Barry, Dorchester, 

 138 species; Richard L. Creesey, 137 species; Samuel Dowse Robbins, 121 spe- 

 cies; Bertha Langmaid, 121 species. The two lists first mentioned are pubhshed 

 herewith. 



List of Birds observed by 

 Lidian E. Bridge, in Mass., 

 from January 1, 1908, to 

 January 1, 1909. 



Name of Species 



Locality 



Holboell's Grebe : Nahant 



Horned Grebe Marblehead . . . . 



Pied-billed Grebe Middlesex Fells. 



Loon Marblehead . . . 



Red-throated Loon Marblehead . . . 



Black Guillemot Marblehead . . . 



Brunnich's Murre ' Nahant 



Razor-billed Auk Nahant 



Pomarine Jasger Ipswich 



Kittiwake Ipswich 



Great Black-backed Gull. . . . Nahant 



Herring Gull \ Medford 



Ring-billed Gull ' Nahant 



Laughing Gull j Naushon 



Bonaparte's Gull ' Ipswich 



Common Tern Naushon 



Arctic Tern j Naushon 



Roseate Tern i Naushon 



Least Tern j Nantucket 



Wilson's Petrel | 



Gannet Ipswich 



Double-crested Cormorant. . . Ipswich 



American Merganser Newton 



Red-breasted Merganser Marblehead . . . 



Hooded Merganser Middlese.x Fells. 



Mallard Newton 



Black Duck Middlesex Fells. 



Red-legged Black Duck Middlesex Fells. 



Green-winged Teal Boston 



Blue-winged Teal Middlesex Fells. 



Pintail Middlesex Fells. 



WoodJ-Duck Ponkapog 



Redhead 



Scaup Duck Marblehead . . . 



Date 



Jan. 4 

 Jan. 6 

 Oct. 24 

 Jan. 6 

 Jan. 6 

 Jan. 6 

 Dec. 28 

 Dec. 22 

 Aug. 23 

 Oct. 7 

 Jan. 4 

 Jan. 2 

 Oct. 5 

 July 12 

 Aug. 28 

 July II 

 July II 

 July II 

 July 26 



Nov. 7 

 May 19 

 Mar. 12 

 Jan. 6 

 Nov. 15 

 Mar. 4 

 Jan. 5 

 Jan. 5 

 Jan. 6 

 Sept. 25 

 Oct. 25 

 Aug. 8 



Jan. 6 



List of Birds observed by 

 James L. Peters, in Mass., 

 from January 1, 1908, to 

 January 1, 1909. 



Locality 



Nahant 



Lynn 



Randolph .... 

 Swampscott . . . 



Nahant 



Marblehead . . 



Rockport 



Date 



Feb. 8 

 Jan. 4 

 April 10 

 Jan. 4 

 Nov. 28 

 Jan. 4 



Dec. 28 



Nahant 



Boston 



Boston 



Boston 



Wood's Hole . . . 



Ipswich 



Wood's Hole . . 

 Wood's Hole . . . 



Chilmark 



Chilmark 



Nahant Bay. . . . 



Ipswich 



Nahant 



Brookline 



Marblehead . . . 

 Middlesex Fells. 



Brookline 



Boston 



Jamaica Plain . 



Boston 



West Tisbury . . 

 Cambridge . . . . 



Randolph 



Edgerton 



Lvnn 



Jan. I 

 Jan. I 

 Jan. I 

 Jan. I 

 Aug. I 

 Sept. 12 

 Aug. I 

 Aug. I 

 Aug. 31 

 Aug. 3 

 June 25 

 Oct. 24 

 Oct. 12 

 Mar. 7 

 Jan. 4 

 Nov. 21 

 Mar. 7 

 Jan. I 

 Jan. I 

 Jan. I 

 Aug. 4 

 Oct. 21 

 April 3 

 Dec. 30 

 Feb. 8 



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