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Prothonotary Warbler Prof. Verrill says it was unknown 

 in New England until Mr. Boardman obtained it — a 

 single male specimen, " shot the last day of October 

 on a tree in the edge of a swamp." The Banded Three- 

 toed Woodpecker found during a severe winter was 

 recorded as a rare winter visitor. Mr. Boardman found 

 the Magnolia Warbler breeding in the season of 1862. 



More records regarding Mr. Boardman's studies upon 

 birds appear in his diary throughout the year 1863 than 

 in an}* year during which it was kept. He not only made 

 collections of birds but of eggs and nests. Boxes of birds 

 and eggs were sent to his naturalist friends and also 

 received from them in exchange. Sixty-four entries 

 relate to individual birds, to his collection and to his 

 work among birds like the following : Skinning and 

 mounting birds ; getting nests and eggs, sending off and 

 receiving specimens and marking bird skins. In March 

 Mr. Boardman visited Fredericton, went to the Parlia- 

 ment building, library and university. He also went to 

 New York and Boston in that month. In the latter 

 place he attended a meeting of the Natural History 

 Society and in Cambridge visited the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology. Again in October he attended a meet- 

 ing of the Natural History Society in Boston. 



Mr. Boardman's collection had during the past three 

 or four years been increasing very rapidly. He had made 

 large additions to it by his own collecting and by his 

 extensive exchanges, while he had also had for several 

 years men in the woods, at Grand Manan and other 

 places along the river and bay who were constantly 

 sending him specimens both common and rare — for 

 he wanted both, either for his own collection or for 



