ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE 

 ORNITHOLOGIST. 



To the State Department of Agriculture. 



Gentlemen: — Considerable material has been gathered and 

 tabulated during the year for publication, but owing to war 

 demands little could be published during 1918. Again this 

 year, as in 1917, the State Board of Agriculture had no money 

 available for printing a leaflet for use in the schools on Arbor 

 and Bird Day, which is now observed in the rural schools of 

 the Commonwealth on the last Friday in April, under chap- 

 ter 74 of the General Acts of 1917. Arrangements therefore 

 were made with the Massachusetts Audubon Society and the 

 Massachusetts Forestry Association to furnish the money 

 required for the publication of such a leaflet. A plate was 

 secured from the National Association of Audubon Societies of 

 New York, and a leaflet was prepared, printed in an edition of 

 11,000 copies and distributed under the auspices of the State 

 Board of Agriculture to superintendents and teachers of the 

 rural schools. 



Material in addition to that collected last year for a bulletin 

 on methods of attracting birds was obtained, but as not all of 

 this could be published at this time, a part of it was issued as 

 Circular No. 2 of the State Department of Agriculture. A more 

 extended paper in the form of a bulletin on methods of at- 

 tracting birds is now in prospect. Following are the publica- 

 tions of the State Ornithologist for the year 1918: — 



Publications of the Year. 



Tenth Annual Report of the State Ornithologist. 



A Provisional List of the Birds of Massachusetts. (Designed for the 

 sole use of special observers appointed by the State Ornithologist.) 



Arbor and Bird Day Bulletin No. 122, April, 1918. Massachusetts For- 

 estry Association, Massachusetts Audubon Society. Prepared by 

 Edward Howe Forbush and Harris A. Rejoiolds. Approved by 

 Payson Smith, Commissioner of Education. 



