APPENDIX. 



A. AN ORNITHOLOGICAL CALENDAR FOR EASTERN MAS- 

 SACHUSETTS. 



(Notes on the Tnsessores, or land-birds, only, excluding game- 

 birds, shore-birds, and waders.) 



§ I. Januabt. 



Visitants and residents ; those in brackets being always very rare, 

 those italicized being (rare or) absent during many winters, and those 

 marked with an asterisk (*) spending the winter, for the most part, 

 more to the southward : [Black Hawks], Blue Jays,* " Butcher- 

 birds," Cedar-birds,* " Chickadees," Crossbills, Crows, Downy "Wood- 

 peckers, Golden-crowned "Wrens," Golden-winged Woodpeckers,* 

 Goldfinches, Goshawks,* [Great Gray Owls], Great Horned Owls, 

 Hairy Woodpeckers,* [Hawk Owls], Hawks (several which are sum- 

 mer residents), [Ipswich Sparrows] ?, [Gyrfalcons], Kingfishers* ?, 

 Lapland Longspurs,* Meadow Larks,* Nuthatches, Owls (several 

 which are summer residents). Pine Finches, Pine Grosbeaks, Pur- 

 ple Finches* ?, Red-bellied Nuthatches,* Bed OrossbiUs, Bed-polls, 

 Red-tailed Hawks, Robins,* [Rough-legged Hawks], Ruby-crowned 

 Wrens,* t Shore Larks, (G. N.) Shrikes, Snow-birds, Snow Buntings, 

 Song Sparrows,* [Three-toed Woodpeckers], Tree Sparrows, White- 

 bellied Nuthatches,* White-winged Crossbills, Wild Pigeons,* 

 Woodpeckers (see above), Winter Wrens* ?, and various sea-birds, 

 etc. 



Note. The Black-throated Blue and Yellow-rumped Warblers, 

 and also the Red-winged Blackbirds, have been known exception- 

 ally to pass the winter here, and the Bluebirds are said to have 

 been seen here in January, t 



^ Bare. t The supposed instance of the oc- 



t This species should have been enrrenoe of the Black-throated Blue 



omitted, as it is not known to occur in Warbler in winter at Boston is open 



winter in any part of New England. — to serions doubt. The Long-billed 



■yy. B. Marsh Wren, Yellow-rumped Warbler, 



