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tions, the Flicker, Bewick's Wren, Blue Jay, 

 and Carolina Chickadee. 



August added only three to the list: 

 Downy Woodpecker, Catbird and Humming- 

 bird. 



September brought eleven new birds to 

 the list, nearly all of them being migrants: 

 Red-eyed Vireo, Red-winged Blackbird, 

 Philadelphia Vireo, Black and White War- 

 bler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Black-billed 

 Cuckoo, Pine Warbler, Black-throated Green 

 Warbler, Screech Owl, Ruby-crowned King- 

 let, and Tennessee Warbler. 



The Philadelphia Vireo is the only one I 

 have ever seen. The Black-biUed Cuckoo 

 was the first one I had seen, but since then 

 I have seen another one in the same tree. 



In October, thirteen were added to the 

 list: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Blue-headed 

 Vireo, Brown Creeper, Nashville Warbler, 

 Hermit Thrush, White-throated Sparrow, 

 Cowbird, Blackpoll Warbler, Orange-crowned 

 Warbler, Bay-breasted Warbler, Myrtle 

 Warbler, Cardinal and Phoebe. 



The Cardinal is very common here, and 

 almost every year one nests in our door- 

 yard. 



Only three new birds were seen in the elm 

 in November: a Junco, a Hairy Woodpecker, 

 and a Song Sparrow. Thus, at the end of 

 six months my list numbered forty-eight. 



In December, the only new bird I saw in 

 the tree was a Tree Sparrow. They come 

 here for the winter in quite large numbers. 



No new visitors to the Elm were noted 

 until April, when a Meadowlark came to the 

 tree. They are very abundant in the spring 

 and summer, and some stay here all winter. 

 We often hear their song in the winter. 



May brought nine birds to be listed, 

 nearly all being migrants, as follows: Palm 

 Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Baltimore Oriole, 

 Gray-cheeked Thrush, Magnolia Warbler, 

 Least Flycatcher, Redstart, Canada Warbler, 

 and Wilson's Warbler. 



Early in June the list was completed by 

 adding the Crested Flycatcher, which 

 totaled just sixty seen in the elm for the 

 year. 



This list shows that birds are much more 

 abundant about our homes than is generally 

 believed, and that we have opportunity to 



learn much about them without going out of 

 our own dooryards. 



In the last two years with the aid of my 

 good six-power glass, I have listed ii8 birds 

 within the limits of our village corporation. — 

 Mary S. Andrews, Farina, Ills. 



Goshawk Nesting in Massachusetts 



I am glad to announce the breeding of the 

 Goshawk in Massachusetts, a consummation 

 devoutedly wished, for, lo, these many years, 

 by Bay State ornithologists. The Goshawk 

 nested last spring in Petersham, in Wor- 

 cester County, in the central part of the 

 state. The two downy young in the nest, 

 which was in a large white pine, were taken 

 May 2 2, 1922, by Mr. J. Nelson Spaeth of 

 the Harvard Forest School, assisted by two 

 of the students of the school. One of the 

 young died after a while, but the other bird 

 lived to become practically full-grown and 

 to assume the complete juvenal plumage. 

 I saw this young Goshawk, July i to 4, in 

 good health and spirits apparently, during a 

 short sojourn at the Harvard Forest School 

 where I enjoyed the delightful courtesy 

 of Prof. R. T. Fisher, director of the Harvard 

 Forest in Petersham, and of his assistant, 

 Mr. J. Nelson Spaeth. To these gentlemen 

 I am indebted for the foregoing facts. A 

 little later the young Goshawk died and the 

 carcass was forwarded by Professor Fisher 

 to State Ornithologist Forbush at the State 

 House, and made into a skin. 



The breeding of the Goshawk in Massa- 

 chusetts has long been anticipated, particu- 

 larly since an immature bird of the species 

 was reported August 15, 1900, in the Hoosac 

 range, in Berkshire County, by that keen 

 observer, Mr. Gerald Thayer {Auk, Vol. 

 XIX, 1902, p. 296.) In addition, individuals 

 of the species have been reported in the past 

 on other occasions in summer in Massa- 

 chusetts. 



While this is the first record with date of 

 the nesting of the Goshawk in Massachusetts, 

 it is antedated by a hitherto unpublished 

 record of a nesting a dozen or more years ago 

 in Townsend in Middlesex County, where in 

 a small local collection a mounted adult 

 female Goshawk and two badly blown eggs 



