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12, 1000 Bronzed Grackles in Brookline; 13, two Barn and two 
Tree Swallows at Nahant; 14, Virginia Rail at Pout Pond; 15, a 
male Rose-breasted Grosbeak in Brookline; 16, twelve Prairie 
Horned Larks at Ipswich, two Roseate Terns at Plum Island; 
30, a Winter Wren in Brookline; 18, and October 2, a Lincoln’s 
Sparrow, Brookline. October. 1, three Indigo birds, Cambridge; 4, 
one more in Brookline, two Yellow-palm Warblers, one Water 
Thrush, West Roxbury, a Magnolia Warbler, Brookline. 
While in company with Mr. C. J. Maynard on October 2 at 
Plum Island, Barron Brainerd and J. L. Peters saw the Nelson’s, 
Sharp-tailed and Acadian Sharp-tailed Sparrows, a Hudsonian Cur- 
lew, a Killdeer, Pigeon Hawk and Gannet; at Ipswich a Caspian 
Tern, Ruddy Duck and Spotted Sandpiper. 
On October 3 R. M. Marble and J. L. Peters found three Grey- 
cheeked Thrushes and a Connecticut Warbler in West Roxbury. 
At the same place in the afternoon, Barron Brainerd and J. L. 
Peters met with a large flight of Warblers including a Cape May and 
a couple of Palm Warblers besides Black and Whites, Parulas, 
Myrtles, Blackpolls and Black-throated Greens. 
R. M. Marble and J. L. Peters saw a Short-eared Owl at Plum 
Island on October 7. 
While walking through the Middlesex Fells on the morning of 
October 9 Barron Brainerd, J. L. Peters and R. L. Creesy saw a 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher near the top of a medium-sized dead tree. 
The bird was rather quiet, making no noise and not moving about 
very much. If it had not been for the fact that he was in a tree 
absolutely devoid of leaves he would undoubtedly have been passed 
by. 
On October 17 J. L. Peters and Barron Brainerd saw a Black- 
billed Cuckoo at North Adams. 
Jamaica Pond has so far supplied a number of interesting birds. 
On September 25 two male Lesser Scaups were present and also 
a bird possibly a female of that species. From September 26-30 
a female Redhead was on the Pond. On Oct. 10 the first Ruddy 
appeared. ‘This bird was followed by another a few days later. 
On the 17th R. M. Marble reported two more Ruddies and twenty- 
seven Coot (fulica). R. L. Creesy found three Baldpates and 
twenty-nine Coot on the Pond the afternoon of the 17th. The 
