APPENDIX. 



A. AN ORNITHOLOGICAL CALENDAR FOR EASTERN MAS- 

 SACHUSETTS. 



(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 Wood- 

 peckers, 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] ?, [Gyrfalcons], Kingfishers* ?, 

 Lapland Longspurs, 1 Meadow Larks,* Nuthatches, Owls (several 

 which are summer residents), Pine finches, Pine Grosbeaks, Pur- 

 ple Finches* ?, Red-bellied Nuthatches,* Red Crossbills, Red-polls, 

 Red-tailed Hawks, Robins,* [Rough-legged Hawks], Ruby-crowned 

 Wrens,* f 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 Warblers, 

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

 ally to pass the winter here, and the Bluebirds are said to have 

 been seen here in January. $ 



1 Rare. J The supposed instance of the oc- 



t This species should have been currence of the Black-throated Blue 



omitted, as it is not known to occur in Warbler in winter at Boston is open 



winter in any part of New England. to serious doubt. The Long-billed 



W. B. Marsh Wren, Yellow-rumped Warbler, 



