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APPENDIX. 



A. Ornithological Calendar for Eastern Massachusetts. 



(Notes on the Insessores, or land-birds, only, excluding 

 game-birds, shore-birds, and waders.) 



I. JANUARY. Visitants and residents (those in brackets 

 being always very rare, those italicized being (rare or) absent 

 during many winters, and those marked with an asterisk (*) 

 spending the winter, for the most part, more to the southward). 

 [Black Hawks], Blue Jays,* "Butcher-birds," Cedar-birds,* 

 " Chickadees," Crossbills, Crows, Downy Woodpeckers, Golden- 

 crowned "Wrens," Golden-winged Woodpeckers,* Goldfinches, 

 Goshawks, 1 [Great Gray Owls], Great Horned Owls, Hairy 

 Woodpeckers, 1 [Hawk Owls], hawks (several, which are sum- 

 mer-residents), [Ipswich Sparrows] ? , [Jerfalcons], Kingfish- 

 ers,* ? Lapland Longspurs, 1 Meadow Larks,* nuthatches, 

 owls (several, which are summer-residents), Pine Finches, Pine 

 Grosbeaks, Purple Finches,* ? Red-bellied Nuthatches,* Red 

 Crossbills, Red-polls, Red-tailed Hawks, Robins,* [Rough- 

 legged Hawks], Ruby-crowned Wrens,* Shore Larks, (G.N.) 

 Shrikes, Snow-birds, Snow Buntings, Song Sparrows,* [Three- 

 toed Woodpeckers], Tree Sparrows, White-bellied Nuthatches,* 

 White-winged Crossbills, Wild Pigeons,* woodpeckers (see 

 above), Winter Wrens,* ? and various sea-birds, etc. 



NOTE. The Black-throated Blue and Yellow-rumped War- 

 blers, and also the Red-winged Blackbirds, have been known 

 exceptionally to pass the winter here, and the Blue Birds are 

 said to have been seen here in January. 



II. FEBRUARY. The same birds may be found here in Feb- 

 ruary as in January. In the latter part of this month, the 

 Blue Birds, or even the Red-winged Blackbirds, sometimes 

 come ; and the Great Horned Owls sometimes lay their eggs. 



III. MARCH. 



lst-15th. The Song Sparrows and Snow-birds sing. The 

 Blue Birds and Blackbirds usually arrive from the South ; the 

 Song Sparrows, and Robins (?), become more abundant. 



* Rare. 



