20 MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



the golden blossoms of the fall dandelion, we were sure of finding flocks of 

 .Meadowlarks and scattered companies of Flickers. The pursuit of these birds, 

 ever wary from the persecution to which they were then almost constantly sub- 

 jected, furnished for us, as it has for so many other youthful gunners, an infinite 

 amount of wholesome pleasure and excitement. Nor was it attended by any 

 serious diminution in the numbers of the birds, for our most carefully planned 

 attempts to outwit them resulted much oftener in failure than success. 



Gray's Woods. 



On the eastern side of the Fresh Pond Parkway, about midway between 

 Brattle Street and Fresh Pond, stand a number of fine old oaks and hickories. 

 These trees, with perhaps twice as many others of equal size, which have long 

 since disappeared, among which were a dozen or more white pines, were formerly 

 enclosed on three sides by a high board fence. Just beyond this on the north 

 lay a small artificial pond, and to the eastward of the pond a swamp of about an 

 acre in extent, grown up to tall red maples. Both groups of trees with their 

 immediate surroundings constituted what was known as Gray's Woods. The 

 place used to attract a good many birds, including a few of the larger kinds, such 

 as Crows, Red-shouldered Hawks and Night Herons. It fairly swarmed with 

 red squirrels and chipmunks, and it was the only locality within the limits of 

 Cambridge where the gray squirrel was found regularly during my boyhood. 



Norton s Woods. 



My old-time friend and present near neighbor. Dr. Walter Woodman, 

 took an active interest in Cambridge birds during his boyhood, although he 

 collected, I believe, only their nests and eggs. His favorite hunting ground 

 was Norton's Woods, near Harvard College, Cambridge, and he still possesses 

 a briefly annotated manuscript list of all the species which he noted there in 

 summer between 1866 and 1874. This paper is of so much local interest 

 that I am glad to avail myself of his kind permission to publish it in this con- 

 nection which I do verbatim and in full : — 



