134 • Birds of Massachusetts 



the early part of the 19th century as attested by Peabody (1839), 

 Audubon (1842) and Putnam (1856). The recorded specimens 

 from the State are : Vineyard Islands, a pair taken by Daniel Web- 

 ster was sent by him to Audubon,^ and is now preserved in the 

 U. S. National Museum. Ipswich, two males were killed in No- 

 vember, 1854, by Nicholas Pike at the mouth of the Ipswich River. 

 One of these birds is now in the collection of the Long Island 

 Historical Society of Brooklyn, New York." Boston Harbour, a 

 young male was taken with a lot of Eiders by a gunner in 1850, and 

 given to Theodore Lyman. He presented it to the Boston Soci- 

 ety of Natural History, in whose mounted collection the specimen 

 now is ;3 Swampscott, a female was shot early in September, 1862, 

 by Arthur Thomas.* This bird is now in the Cory Collection. 



INTRODUCED SPECIES. 



1. Lagopus lagopus (Linn.). Willow Ptarmigan. — One 

 was taken in Manchester on May 10, 1859.^ It was supposed to 

 have been brought from Labrador or Newfoundland on a vessel. 

 However as the specimen is not of the subspecies alleniiX could not 

 have been a native of Newfoundland and so must have been 

 secured elsewhere, probably in Labrador. The specimen is now 

 preserved in the Essex Institute collection at Salem. 



2. Tympanuchus americanus (Reich.). Prairie Hen. — 

 This bird was introduced into Barnstable and Berkshire Counties 

 in the '8o's and also on Naushon Island. These last have been 

 exterminated. In 1893 a few were introduced at Springfield, 

 but they soon disappeared. 



' Audubon; Birds of America, Vol. VI, p. 329. 



^ Dutcher, /i/« Pike; Auk, Vol. VIII, No. 2, Apr., i8go, pp. 20.5, 206. 



3 Hyatt; Proi:. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. XXII, 1884, read May 2, 1883, 



P- 35°- 

 ^Dutcher; Auk, Vol. XI, No. 1, Jan., 1894, pp. 7, 8. 



^Coues; Proc. Essex Inst., Vol. V, 1868, p. 289. 



