^6 MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



(6) My own personal observations and records in Essex County began with 

 a summer spent partly at Danvers and partly at Marblehead, in 1875. Four 

 summers were spent at Magnolia, 1876 to 1879 inclusive, and occasional visits 

 were made during the winter to this region, extending on several occasions to a 

 week in duration. My ornithological excursions in these years, which were years 

 of active collecting represented now by specimens and notes, extended from 

 Manchester along the coast to the end of Cape Ann and through the Essex 

 Woods, then regularly frequented by the Passenger Pigeon, to Coffin's Beach 

 and the Essex Marshes. 



From 1 880 to 1 892, there is, with a few exceptions, a gap in my own records 

 for this region, but since then I have spent my summer vacations at Ipswich, 

 and have made as many winter expeditions there as possible from my home in 

 Boston, visiting also other parts of the County in both summer and winter. 

 Although these visits in winter have necessarily been brief, not over twenty-four 

 or thirty-six hours long, and generally not oftener than once a month, yet in the 

 series of years I have covered at least every week of the winter. Visits in 

 spring and autumn have been much more frequent. 



In the following hst, the species are numbered consecutively and a second 

 number, which is bracketed, is that of the Check-List of the American Orni- 

 thologists' Union whose nomenclature, coiTCCted up to July, 1904, is used. The 

 names enclosed in quotation marks are those that are familiarly used in Essex 

 County, some being quite local. The earliest and latest dates of arrival and 

 departure are given, very unusual dates being in parentheses. In some cases the 

 average date for a number of years is entered, and further particulars are often to 

 be found in the annotations. The dates following the word Eggs are dates 

 between which eggs have been found in the County. All dates are from records 

 in my possession. The observations of habits, and so forth, are my own, unless 

 otherwise stated. Where published records are mentioned, the references are 

 always given. 



Extinct and extirpated species are introduced in the proper order, and have 

 the Check-List number, but they are not numbered with the recognized species 

 and are distinguished by being put in smaller print. The species of doubtful 

 and of erroneous record are designated in the same way, the text showing to 

 which class the particular species belongs. 



