74 MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



CHAPTER X. 



ANNOTATED LIST OF THE BIRDS OF ESSEX COUNTY. 



INTRODUCTION. 



In the List of the Birds of Essex County I have availed myself of six 

 sources of information, as follows: (i) published records; (2) written and 

 verbal communications ; (3) collections of specimens ; (4) sportsmen's records ; 

 (5) lighthouse records; (6) personal observations. 



(i) The references to published records are given in the list, and the whole 

 bibliography is arranged at the end of the memoir in alphabetical order by 

 authors. 



(2) I am indebted to a great many individuals for generously furnishing 

 me with notes and observations on the birds of Essex County, and to some for 

 specimens. To all of these I wish to express my sincere thanks. Their names 

 are as follows: W. P. Alcott, Carolyn E. Allen, F. H. Allen, G. M. Allen, 

 Outran! Bangs, C. F. Batchelder, F. G. Blake, M. C. Blake, Harold Bowditch, 

 T. S. Bradlee, William Brewster, Laurence Brooks, C. E. Brown, A. P. Chad- 

 bourne, M.D., H. F. Cliase, A. H. Clark, Walter Deane, J. M. Dodge, A. A. 

 Eaton, Guy Emerson, R. S. Eustis, J. A. Farley, Walter Faxon, Gertrude B. 

 Goldsmith, Lila G. Goldsmith, J. L. Goodale, M.D., S. D. Gray, J. H. Hardy, Jr., 

 Ralph Hoffmann, R. H. Howe, Jr., W. A. Jeffries, C. H. Keith, F. H. Kennard, 

 H. W. King, Sarah E. Lakeman, R. C. Larcom, C. W. Loud, G. M. Magee, 

 C. J. Maynard, F. B. McKechnie, L. Moses, J. T. Nichols, S. M. Noyes, W. R. 

 Peabody, J. C. Phillips, M.D., H. A. Purdie, A. L. Reagh, M.D., C. H. Russell, 

 Ellen W. Sayward, J. H. Sears, L. A. Shaw, H. M. Spelman, A. F. Tarr, Brad- 

 ford Torrey, H. M. Turner, W. H. Vivian, M. A. Walton, T. W. Wardley, G. O. 

 Welch, T. C. Wilson, G. L. Woodbury, H. W. Wright, C. O. Zerrahn. 



(3) I have examined the following public collections of specimens : Peabody 

 Academy of Science at Salem, Essex County collection, a very large and 

 interesting one ; Boston Society of Natural History, New England collection ; 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, at Cambridge ; Public Library of City of 

 Lawrence, collection belonging to Lawrence Natural History Society ; Ipswich 

 Historical Society, small collection made by Mr. Joseph I. Horton ; Lynn Natu- 



