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BOARD OF AGRICUT.TURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Nests and Eggs or 

 *riea-billetl Grebe. 

 Black Duck. 

 Virginia Rail. 



* Spotted SaiKli)iper. 

 Bobwhite. 

 Ruffed Grouse. 

 Ring-necked Pheasant. 

 Marsh Hawk. 

 Fli(^ker. 



Downy Woodpec^ker. 

 Chimney Swift. 

 Kingbird. 

 Least Flyoatoher. 

 *Bo])olink. 



* Red-winged Black] )ird. 

 Meadow J^ark. 

 Baltimore Oriole. 

 Rose-breasted Grosbeak. 

 Chipping Sparrow. 

 Field Sparrow. 



Song S])an-ow. 

 Swamp Sparrow. 



You7ig. 



Towhee. 



Scarlet Tanager. 



Purple Martin. 



Barn SwalloAV. 



Tree Swallow. 

 *Eave Swallow. 



Yellow-throated Vireo. 



Red-eyed Vireo. 



Black-and-white Warbler 



Myrtle Warl)ler. 



Yellow A^'arl)ler. 



Chestnut-sided Warbler. 



Prairie Warbler. 



Ovenbird. 



Maryland Ytdlow-throat. 

 *Reilstart. 



Catbird. 



Brown Thrasher. 



House Wren. 



Long-billed Marsh Wren. 

 *BluetMrd. 

 *Roljin. 



As this report must go to press before the general spring 

 migration of birds sets in, no statement can be made as to 

 the number of birds breeding here in 1904. If we assume, 

 however, that tlie evidence submitted approximates tlie 

 facts, we may be justified in believing that the bobwhite has 

 been reduced generally at least ninety-five per cent, that 

 grouse will be scarce this spring, and that purple martins 

 will be generally absent, although a few individuals or col- 

 onies probably will appear locally in Massachusetts. There 

 probably will be also an unusual local scarcity of many of the 

 species mentioned in the above list, and possibly of more not 

 mentioned. 



Rol)ins, bluel)irds, phtcbes, downy woodpeckers and crows 

 may be expected in their usual numbers generally, unless 

 they have suifered unusual morlalitv in the south ; but it 

 seems probable that most of the warblc^rs will again be scarce. 



* Adult birds itiportiul also as niisshig. 



