BIRDS OF ESSEX COUNTV, 

 MASSACHUSETTS 



By Charles Wendell Townsend, M. D. 



Published as Memoir III of the NuUall Ornithological 



Club. Cambridge. 1905 



" This is by far the most elaborate treatise on the 

 birds of so limited a district that has yet appeared in 

 this country. . . . The work is marked by careful re- 

 search, is well executed and in every way creditable 

 to the author and the publishers." — Auk, XXII, 

 1905. 



" This elaborate treatise contains not only an anno- 

 tated list of Essex County birds, but also chapters on 

 ' Topography and Faunal Areas,' ' Lighthouse Rec- 

 ords,' ' Ornithological History of Essex County, 1616- 

 1904,' and on the characteristic bird-life of the ocean, 

 sand beaches, sand dunes, salt marshes, fresh marshes 

 and ponds. Based on long continued, minute and sym- 

 pathetic observation, these introductory essays con- 

 tain much that is of scientific importance and at the 

 same time are most interesting reading." — Bird, Lore, 

 VII, 1905. 



" He writes with the straightforward accuracy of a 

 scientific observer, but he has, besides, a gift of graphic 

 description and a pleasing style, which scientific writers 

 so often lack. A personal quality gets into the records 

 and adds to their charm." — Harvard Graduate Maga- 

 zine, Sept., 1905. 



