The Massachusetts Audubon Society’s Bird-Lists 
species of birds seen by its members in the state during the year evidently 
| eee in the Massachusetts Audubon Society’s plan of listing the 
shows no decrease, and three of the lists for 1909 contain a greater number 
of species than have heretofore been recorded by any member of the Society 
during the course of a year,—if indeed they do not actually exceed in number 
the annual State list of any other observers. 
The ten best lists received by the Secretary of the Society for the year end- 
ing December 31, 1909, were made by the following members: Lidian E. 
Bridge, 244 species; James L. Peters, 239 species; Barron Brainerd, 235 species; 
Harold L. Barrett, 204 species; Anne W. Cobb, 202 species; Richard L. Creesy, 
Igr species; Anna K. Barry, 188 species; Joseph Kittredge, Jr., 188 species; 
W. Charlesworth Levey, 166 species; Samuel Dowse Robbins, 131 species. 
The two lists first mentioned are published herewith. 
List of Birds observed by 
Lidian E. Bridge, in Mass., 
from. January 1, 
January 1, 1910. 
1909, to 
List of Birds observed by 
James L. Peters, in Mass., 
from January 1, 1909, to 
January 1, 1910. 
Name of Species Locality Date Locality Date 
Holbeell’s Grebe.......... Nabamiteeeeee ee Bebrss ea) |e Naliamte ese Jan. 16 
Horned Grebe............ INCE crag acts Feb. 3 Edgartown..... Jan. 1 
Pied-billed Grebe......... Ponkapog....... Sept. 3o || Randolph....... April 20 
BOOM arte ery arent tienes Magnolia....... Mar. 1 Edgartown..... Jan. 1 
Red-throated Loon........ Nahant......... Jan. 7 Edgartown..... Jan. 1 
Black Guillemot.......... Rockport....... Feb. 18 Nahant ane Feb. r 
Briinnich’s Murre......... Magnolia....... Mar. 1 Nahant........ Feb. 20 
Razor-billed Auk......... Manchester..... Nov. 16 Winthrop....... Feb. 20 
Pomarine Jaeger..........| Marblehead..... Aug. 25 Ipswich........ Sept. 25 
Parasitic Jaeger........... Ipswich......... Aug. 14 West Tisbury...| Sept. 8 
KSEE UKE ayocae aoe eee eel) LDSWACH aera « Feb. 22 Boston Harbor..| Feb. 20 
Great Black-backed Gull...) Brookline........| Jan. 23 Edgartown..... Jan. 1 
Henrie) Gull seen se Medford Jan. 11 Edgartown..... Jan. 1 
Ring-billed Gull.......... Nahant......... Feb. 3 Ipswich........ Oct. 2 
Laughing Gull............ Woods Hole.....| April 17 Woods Hole....} June 30 
Bonaparte’s Gull.......... Ipswich......... July 31 Woods Hole....| Jan. 2 
Common Tern............ Cohasset........ May 31 Woods Hole ....| June 30 
FAT GHICUMeLiiyss = as. che seen Ipswich......... July 31 Nantucket......} June 30 
Roseate Tern............. Nantucket...... Aug. 7 Nantucket...... June 30 
Weastelern. cess as sons Nantucket......| Aug. 7 Edgartown..... July 3. 
Wilson’s Petrel........... Marblehead..... June 16 | Nahant........ June 26 
(Gannetash ie sun's amet tes Ipswich......... Oct. 16 Ipswich........ Oct. 2 
Double-crested Cormorant.| Manchester..... Aug. 23 Chilmark.......| Sept. 10 
American Merganser...... Brookline....... Jan. 16 Edgartown..... Jan. 
Red-breasted Merganser...| Nahant......... Jan. 7 Edgartown..... Jan. 1 
Hooded Merganser........ Middlesex Fells .| Oct. 21 Middlesex Fells.| Nov. 20 
INE NEHGS eee tipeeroia enc oceans Middlesex Fells .} April 2 Jamaica Pond...) Jan. ro 
Black: Duck. cei iecyestce om Jamacia Pond...) Jan. 1 Edgartown..... Jan. I 
Red-legged Black Duck....| Jamaica Pond...) Jan. 1 Edgartown..... Jan. I 
Green-winged Teal........| Middlesex Fells.) Mar. 16 Edgartown..... Jan. 1 
Blue-winged Teal......... Ipswich......... Sept. 4 West Tisbury ..| Sept. 15 
