The Massachusetts Audubon Society's Bird Lists 



THE Massachusetts Audubon Society continues to develop in its members 

 a practical interest in birds by supplying them with blanks on which to 

 record the species observed during the year in Massachusetts. The 

 best ten lists received by the secretary of the Society for the year ending December 

 31, 1907, were made by the following members: Lidian E. Bridge, West Medford, 

 201 species; James L. Peters, Jamaica Plain, 191 species; William L. Barker, 

 Jamaica Plain, 153 species; Barron Brainerd, Brookline, 134 species; Bertha 

 Langmaid, Boston, 128 species; Louise Howe, Brookline, 122 species; Samuel 

 Dowse Robbins, Belmont, 120 species; Frank Seymour, Waverly, 83 species; 

 Edith Seymour, Waverly, 79 species; W. Brooks Brown, Melrose, 43 species; 

 Elizabeth K. Brown, Melrose, 32 species. The two lists first mentioned are 

 published herewith: 



Name of Species 



Holboell's Grebe 



Horned Grebe 



Pied-billed Grebe 



Loon 



Red-throated Loon 



Black Guillemot 



Briinnich's Murre 



Razor-billed Auk 



Kittiwake 



Great Black-backed Gull . . . 



Herring Gull 



Ring-billed Gull 



Laughing Gull 



Bonaparte's Gull 



Common Tern 



Arctic Tern 



Roseate Tern 



Least Tern 



Wilson's Petrel 



Gannet 



Double-crested Cormorant . . 



American Merganser 



Red-breasted Merganser. . . . 



Hooded Merganser 



Mallard 



Black Duck 



Red-legged Black Duck 



Green-winged Teal 



Pintail 



Wood Duck 



Redhead 



Scaup Duck 



Lesser Scaup Duck 



List of Birds observed bv 

 Lidian E. Bridge, West Med- 

 ford, Mass., from January 1 , 

 1907, to January 1, 1908. 



Locality 



Nahant 



Nahant 



Middlesex Fells 



Nahant 



Nahant 



Nahant 



Nahant ?. . . 



Nahant 



Nahant 



Nahant 



Medford 



Nahant 



Nantucket 



Ipswich 



Nantucket 

 Wood's Hole. . . 

 Nantucket 

 Nantucket 



Ipswich 



Ipswich 



Middlesex Fells 



Nahant 



Middlesex Fells 

 Middlesex Fells 

 Middlesex Fells 

 Middlesex Fells 

 Middlesex Fells 

 Middlesex Fells 



Jamaica Pond 



Nahant 



Cambridge . . . 



Date 



Feb. 1 6 

 Feb. 16 

 Oct. 8 

 Jan. ii 

 Oct. io 

 Oct. io 

 Dec. 20 

 Jan. ii 

 Oct. 28 

 Jan. 5 

 Jan. 4 

 Oct. 18 

 July 28 

 Aug. 17 

 July 28 

 July 27 

 July 28 

 July 29 



Oct. 12 

 Oct. 12 

 April 14 

 Feb. 16 

 Oct. 20 

 Oct. 27 

 April 3 

 April 3 

 Nov. 23 

 Oct. 19 



Oct. 25 

 Mar. 16 



Nov. 14 



List of Birds observed by 

 James L. Peters, Jamaica 

 Plain, from January 1, 

 1907, to January 1, 1908. 



Locality 



Ipswich 



Watertown .... 

 Franklin Park . 



Nahant 



Nahant 



Nahant 



Nahant 



Nahant 



Ipswich 



Boston 



Boston 



Nahant 



Ipswich 



Boston 



Mass. Bay 



Ipswich 



Ipswich 



Middlesex Fells 



Nahant 



Middlesex Fells 

 Middlesex Fells 

 West Roxbury . 

 Cambridge .... 

 Middlesex Fells 

 Middlesex Fells 



Brookline 



Jamaica Plain . 



Nahant 



Jamaica Plain . 



Date 



Nov. 16 

 Jan. 5 

 April 19 

 Oct. 11. 

 Oct. 11 

 Dec. 27 

 Nov. 2 

 Nov. 23 

 Nov. 16 

 Jan. 12 

 Jan. 3 

 Oct. 11 



Nov. 16 

 Sept. 19 



Sept. 19 

 Oct. 19 

 Oct. 19 

 April 19 

 Mar. 16 

 Oct. 20 

 April 19 

 Mar. 18 

 Mar. 9 

 Nov. 23 

 Nov. 30 

 May 19 

 Oct. 25 

 Dec. 24 

 Oct. 23 



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