380 SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD 
I found the red Phalarope breeding in two places last season. Blue 
winged teal I find breeding every year. The golden eye and sheldrake 
and Mergus Americanus breed very commonly, both in trees, and 
are common with us winter and summer, as does the hooded mergan- 
ser breed in trees, but is rare in winter. The eider duck breeds at 
the Islands, common, first (of) June probably breeding. The gannet 
and cormorant a few breed, herring gull are abundant all summer 
and also breed about the fresh water lakes. The great black-back 
gull also breed, but are getting rare. I also find through the forest 
in summer very many warblers and think many of them breed in 
about this latitude, but our forests are so extensive I seldom find 
the nest. I forgot to say the razor-bill puffin, and sea-pigeon, murre, 
were with us all summer, but not very abundant. We also often 
find stragglers from the North in summer, but (these) are so uncom- 
mon (they) are hardly worth mentioning, such as hawk owl, snowy 
owl, Richardson’s owl etc. The most of the birds I have mentioned 
you will rarely find about Massachusetts or Western Maine in sum- 
mer, and many of their common birds, we never see, and others very 
rarely. The towhee bunting and brown thrush we never see. The 
meadow lark only one specimen, the blue bird rare, Cooper hawk 
and mottled owl very rare, yellow-bill cuckoo very rare, house wren 
also rare. Have never found the prairie warbler, worm-eating warbler 
or pine warbler, but I believe I wrote you I found a nice male speci- 
men of the prothonotary warbler, two Falls ago. There has been 
considerable written about the cliff swallow migrating South. I came 
from Mass. to this part of the country in the year 1828; the cliff 
swallow was then very abundant, building the whole length (of) the 
eaves of barns, as much we see them now, which was not the case 
in Massachusetts. 
I have written in considerable hurry without any method or 
arrangement, and if there is any idea new to you, I shall be well 
repaid. 
I have for a long time been surprised there should be in so short 
a distance as about one hundred or two hundred miles so great a 
change in the breeding places of many hardy and early birds, as the 
bluebird and others of Mass., and then that we should have so many 
that do not breed with them. I also find in Southern Nova Scotia 
Massachusetts birds much more common. Having been so busy of 
