BULLETIN 



ESSE12C UtTSTITTTTE. 



Vol. 5. Salem, Mass., March, 1873. No. 3. 



One Dollar a Year in Advance. 10 Cents a Single Copy. 



Regular Meeting, Monday, March 17, 1873. 

 a partial catalogue of tpie birds of grand mexan, n. b. 



r Continued.} 



ICTEKLD^. 



62. Agelcens phoeniceus. Red-winged Blackbird. Has been noticed 

 by Mr. Clieney, but does not breed. 



63. Qniscalus versicolor. Crow Blackbird. Occurs, but is rare. 

 Others of this family may occur, as they are found on the mainland, 

 but they cannot be common here, else they would have been noted. 



CORVID.^. 



64. Carvtis caruivorus. Raven. Very common ; breeds in abun- 

 dance, placing its nest indiscriminately on the trees or on the cliffs. 

 The same nest is frequented for many years. The eggs are deposited 

 about the 10th of March. These birds are universally hated; and 

 in truth it is no vulgar prejudice, for they are very destructive, espec- 

 ially to young lambs ; and no chance is lost of shooting them, so that 

 with all their pi-overbial vigilance, they annually decrease. The 12th 

 of June I found an enormous nest on the outej Wood Island. It was 

 placed on the clitf so as to be perfectly inaccessible, and contained 

 four fully fledged young, two of which were dislodged by the plentiful 

 use of stones. The nest in itself is a curiosity worth seeing and 

 would make no mean load for a horse to draw. It had evidently becu 



