The annual migration list of Mr. William C. Horton of 

 Brattleboro contains the names of eighty-one species, seen with- 

 out special effort ; nearly all records being made while about 

 his daily business. One of his records was a parula warbler, 

 nesting, May 11. A saw-whet owl, seen July 10, was another 

 unusual record, and black-crowned night herons, September 2, 

 are rare in Brattleboro. With one exception every bird was 

 seen in the town of Brattleboro. 



St. Johnsbury children must have had their eyes open. In the 

 1910 bird study contest, the hardest test that had ever been 

 given them, with specimens of many female birds included, 

 Lawrence Doty named forty out of the fifty birds shown ; 

 Edith Stone named forty-eight. Max Gilfillan named thirty- 

 nine, and Dorothy Adams named thirty-eight correctly. Many 

 other children made creditable records. 



Miss Alice Eaton, assistant librarian at Woodstock, re- 

 ported that printed lists of birds were sent out from the 

 library to the teachers of the district schools. Returns were 

 received from ten schools, the highest number recorded being 

 sixty species. 



Mr. H. S. Kinsman of Rochester, who was spending the 

 winter in St. George, Ga., reported the following northern 

 birds wintering there : Robin, bluebird, meadow lark, blackbird, 

 grackle, phoebe, goldfinch, flicker, several other woodpeckers. 

 None of these birds were in song. 



Mrs. C. H. Morrill of Randolph Center reported a list of 

 fifty-six species which she had seen in Franklin. She had 

 not tried to get a complete list as she had been more inter- 

 ested in those she could study and become familiar with than 

 in rare migrants, seen once a year. 



The Fairbanks museum list for ]910 contained ninety- 

 seven species. The forty others listed in previous years 

 makes a total of 137 kinds. 



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