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sistance: Professor W. W. McLaren, Judge Sanborn G. Tenney, 

 Miss Helen Hart and Mr. William J. Cartwright of Williams- 

 town; Miss Dorothy Davies of Blackinton; Mrs. Frank Hans- 

 ford and Mr. W. H. Sperry, chairman, Greylock Reservation 

 Commission, of North Adams; Mrs. Thomas Carne of Adams; 

 Miss Florence M. Pease of Conway; Miss Caroline E. Ham- 

 ilton of Greenfield; Mrs. Julia F. A. Browning, Mrs. George 

 Stanford and Mr. Emory Sibley of Rowe; Mr. Perley Carr of 

 Colrain; Mr. J. W. Jackson of Belchertown; Mr. R. L. 

 Coffin of Amherst; Mr. A. C. Bagg of Holyoke; Mr. A. A. 

 Cross of Huntington; and Hon. Herbert Parker of Lancaster. 



The notes secured by Mr. Farley during this trip, coupled 

 with information previously obtained by him and other ob- 

 servers of this Division, all go to prove that certain species 

 breed much more widely or generally in Massachusetts than 

 previous records would indicate. Some results of the season's 

 work are shown below: — 



The Northern Pileated Woodpecker is distributed jn the 

 breeding season very sparsely through the forested regions of 

 western and northern Massachusetts. It is even rarer now 

 than the reports would indicate, as it is a conspicuous wander- 

 ing bird, and a single individual may be seen often in differ- 

 ent localities. It has nested in recent years as far east as 

 Middlesex County, but has not been known to nest recently in 

 Essex County. A nest was found this year by Mr. A. A. Cross 

 in Hampshire County near the Hampden County line. 



The Yellow-bellied Sapsucker was met with in the breeding 

 season only in Franklin and Berkshire counties, at altitudes 

 of 1,600 to 2,200 feet. Three nestings were noted, — one in 

 Berkshire County and two in Franklin County. 



The Olive-sided Flycatcher may breed anywhere between 

 the western border of Massachusetts and the elbow of Cape 

 Cod. It has been reported as far east as Dennis, and is well 

 known in Berkshire County. It breeds from near sea level to 

 an altitude of 1,600 feet and higher, but it now seems to be 

 rarer in New England than it was forty years ago. It comes 

 and goes. In Rowe, Franklin County, where Mr. Farley found 

 six or seven pairs and two nests in June, 1918, he could not 

 find a single individual in 1920. This bird may be found in 



