CHAPTER XI 



SCIENTIFIC LISTS 



"l^TEXT to his large collection in ornithology the 

 -A_^l work that gave Mr. Boardman great authority 

 as a naturalist and brought him into correspondence 

 with so many students who had never seen his collection 

 were the lists of the fauna of the St. Croix valley which 

 he published from time to time in the scientific journals. 

 The basis of his list of birds were those first published 

 in the Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural 

 History in 1862, Vol. IX., pages 122-233. As his interest 

 in the natural history of his locality widened Mr. Board- 

 man studied all its branches and, as was his custom, 

 made records of all his observations. The following lists 

 embrace the results of his studies in the faunal distribu- 

 tion of Maine and New Brunswick. 



These lists were finally revised by Mr. Boardman and 

 published in the columns of the Calais Weekly Times 

 between November 23, 1899 and February 5, 1900, the 

 old scientific nomenclature being used. But owing to our 

 increased knowledge of the relations which different fami- 

 lies and species of birds bear to each other the generic 

 names of many species have been changed since Mr. 

 Boardman's list was originally published. 



