BIRDS OF ESSEX COUNTY. 



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the description and figures of Wilson and Audubon. Nuttall 2 reports the tak- 

 ing of a specimen near Salem about 1830, and even as late as 1875 it was 

 reported by Brewer 2 as having been taken at Wenham. 



SUMMARY. 



Of the 321 species and subspecies, including the 2 introduced species, I 

 have myself seen 2 1 5 alive in Essex County, and have examined specimens from 

 the County of all of these but 2. These 2 are Henslow's Sparrow and Palm 

 Warbler, both of which have been identified by other members of the Club 

 besides myself. There remain 106 species ; of these I have examined speci- 

 mens of 98 from the County. Of the remaining 8 species, 7 are authorita- 

 tively recorded in literature and the specimens of some if not all of these are 

 in existence. These are as follows : Sooty Tern, Roseate Tern, Yellow- 

 crowned Night Heron, Gray Kingbird, Bohemian Waxwing, Hudsonian Chicka- 

 dee, and Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. The records of the 1 remaining species, 

 namely, Cardinal, have been supplied from reliable sources. 



The following is a summary of the birds considered in the foregoing 

 pages : — 



Extant species and subspecies . 

 Introduced species ..... 



Extirpated species ..... 

 Extinct species ..... 



Species of doubtful record 



Species of erroneous record 



Apocryphal species .... 



Total number of species considered 



3'9 



2 



3 21 

 6 

 2 



329 



16 



2 S 



354 



1 Thomas Nuttall : A Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada, vol. 

 p. 297, 1832. 



2 T. M. Brewer : Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 17, p. 440, 1875. 



