BIRDS OF THE CAMBRIDGE REGION. 



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On the occasion just mentioned I noted the following birds in Norton's 

 Woods : — 



1 6. White-breasted Nuthatch. 



17- 



i8. 



Chickadee. 

 Robin. 



One. 



Several flying high over the woods. 



One singing in the pines over the drive- 

 way. 



Two birds. 



A single male. 



A dozen or more. 



About half a dozen seen. 



A pair accompanied by their brood of young. 



One. 



One or two heard. 



One singing. 



One singing. 



One singing. 



One singing. 



One (a nest with eggs was found earlier in 

 the season). 



One (I afterwards learned that a pair of 

 these Nuthatches hatched and reared 

 their brood this season in a hollow 

 maple in Norton's Woods). 



One. 



Eight or ten, all old birds. 



Cambridgcport. 



Concerning the birds which continued to breed nearly or quite up to 1870 

 in the lower portions of Cambridgeport, and especially in the immediate neigh- 

 borhood of Brookline Street, my friend Mr. Henry W. Henshaw has been kind 

 enough to furnish me the following interesting account : — 



HiLO, Hawau, May 17, 1901. 



You ask about the summer birds of Camliridgcpnrt in the late sixties. That is to hark 

 back a lonjj; time and to conditions very unlike tho.sc of the present. The city of today is 



