The Massachusetts Audubon Society's Bird-Lists 



THE success attending the Massachusett's Audubon's Society's plan 

 of inducing its members to record the birds observed by them in Mass- 

 achusetts, during the year, on blanks suppUed for this purpose, con- 

 tinues to be attested by the number and character of the lists sent in. The 

 ten best lists received by the Secretary of the Society for the year ending 

 December 31, 191 1, were made by the following members: Joseph A. Hagar, 

 Newtonville, 210 species; H. D. Mitchell, Newtonville, 208 species; W. Charles- 

 worth Levey, Brookline, 189 species; F. A. Scott, 158 species; Mrs. Mary 

 Moore Kaan, Brookline, 74 species; Horace McFarlin, Bridgewater, 73 species; 

 Helen W. Kaan, Brookline, 70 species; Marie Warton Kaan, Brookline, 58 

 species; Mary F. Atkinson, Brookline, 44 species; Edwin H. Merrill, Winchen- 

 don, 16 species. The two lists first mentioned are published herewith. 



Name of Species 



Holboell's Grebe 



Horned Grebe 



Pied-billed Grebe 



Loon 



Red-throated Loon 



Black Guillemot 



Pomarine Jaeger 



Parasitic Jaeger 



Great Black-backed Gull. . . 



Herring Gull 



Ring-billed Gull 



Laughing Gull 



Bonaparte's Gull 



Common Tern 



Arctic Tern 



Roseate Tern 



Least Tern 



Wilson's Petrel 



Gannet 



Double-crested Cormorant.. 



American Merganser 



Red-breasted Merganser. . . 



Hooded Merganser 



Mallard 



Black Duck 



Red-legged Black Duck. . . . 



Green-winged Teal 



Blue-winged Teal 



Pintail 



Wood Duck 



Redhead 



Scaup Duck 



Lesser Scaup Duck 



List of Birds observed by 

 Joseph A. Hagar, in Mass., 

 from January 1, 1911, to 

 December 31, 1911. 



Marshfield 

 Marshfield. 

 Canton.. . . 

 Marshfield. 

 Marshfield. 



Marshfield. 



Chestnut Hill. 

 Marshfield 



Marshfield. . . . 



Ipswich 



New Bedford 

 Woods Hole . 

 Woods Hole. . 

 Nantucket. . . 



Apr. 8 

 Oct. 28 

 Sept. 16 

 Feb. 24 

 Apr. 4 



Aug. 30 



Mar. 19 

 Feb. 24 



Plum Island. . . . 



Marshfield 



Cambridge 



Marshfield 



Middlesex Fells, 

 Chestnut Hill. . 



Marshfield 



Brookline 



Ipswich 



Ipswich 



Marshfield 



Canton 



Cambridge. . . . 



Duxbury 



Jamaica Pond... 



July 29 

 Aug. 20 

 June 30 

 June 30 

 June 30 

 July I 



Sept. 30 

 Sept. ID 

 Mar. 25 

 Apr. 4 

 Nov. 4 

 Mar. 19 

 Feb. 24 

 Mar. 19 

 Sept. 30 

 Aug. 20 

 Oct. 28 

 Sept. 16 

 Nov. 24 

 Dec. 2 

 Nov. 4 



List of Birds observed by H. 

 D. Mitchell, in Mass., from 

 January 1, 1911, to Decem- 

 ber 31, 191 I. 



Locality 



Nahant 



Marshfield. . . . 



Canton 



Nahant 



Marshfield. . . 



Nahant 



Provincetown. 

 Plum Island. 

 Cambridge. . . 

 Cambridge. . . 

 Plum Island. . 

 Marshfield — 

 Marshfield. . . 

 Marshfield.. . 

 Marshfield — 



Nahant 



Provincetown. 

 Cohasset 



Salem 



Cambridge 



Marshfield 



Middlesex Fells 



Cambridge 



Marshfield 



Cambridge 



Ipswich 



Plum Island. . . 



Canton 



Cambridge . .. . 



Nahant 



Jamaica Plain. 



Jan. 28 

 Dec. 2 

 Sept. 13 

 Jan. 2S 

 Apr. 4 

 Dec. 27 

 Aug. 15 

 Sept. 23 

 Jan. 25 

 Jan. 25 

 Sept. 23 

 July 29 

 July 29 

 July 29 

 July 29 

 Aug. 6 

 Aug. 15 

 Aug. 15 



Sept. 21 

 Jan. 25 

 Apr. 4 

 Oct. 31 

 Jan. 25 

 Apr. 4 

 Jan. 25 



Aug. 20 

 Sept. 23 

 Sept. 13 

 Nov. 22 

 Jan. 28 

 Nov. 3 



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