1 8 MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB 



The whole area is a glacial gravel hill with a broad flat top sixty feet above the 

 marsh at its highest point. The eastern section, consisting of fifteen acres, con- 

 tains three small summer cottages each with small flower and kitchen gardens, 

 elm, maple, and black-locust shade-trees and bushes. A row of apple trees 

 extends along the stone-wall by the road. The rest of the ground is a badly 

 run-down mowing-field in which wild strawberries and roses abound. The middle 

 area of twelve acres contains two houses and a barn, vegetable and flower gardens, 

 fruit trees and berry bushes, mowing-fields and an acre and a half devoted to a 

 thicket of New England trees, — about fifty species, — now averaging fifteen years 

 old. Especial provision is made for the birds in the thick tangle of trees, — 

 evergreen and deciduous, — in the bushes and vines, especially native berry- 

 bearing, at the boundary walls and elsewhere. There are many old rum-cherry 

 trees and apple trees and a very large bitternut hickory. There are thirty-two 

 bird boxes and several bird baths. The number of birds on this middle area of 

 twelve acres is much larger than on the remaining thirty-five acres. The western 

 area of twenty acres contains one summer cottage with flower and vegetable 

 garden, a few fruit and shade-trees, a small thicket of evergreens, the rest mowing- 

 land. There are no English Sparrows, Starlings, or cats on the whole area." 



My list of the nesting birds of this area is as follows : 



Pairs Fairs 



Ring-necked Pheasant 2 Savannah Sparrow 3 



Black-billed Cuckoo 2 Chipping Sparrow 4 



Flicker 2 Song Sparrow 16 



Kingbird 6 Barn Swallow 2 



Phoebe 2 Tree Swallow IS 



Crow I Cedar Waxwing i 



Bobolink 10 Red^eyed Vireo I 



Red-winged Blackbird 4 Yellow Warbler 11 



Meadowlark 3 Maryland Yellow-throat' 7 



Baltimore Oriole 6 Redstart i 



Bronzed Crackle 8 Catbird 6 



Purple Finch i Brown Thrasher 3 



Goldfinch 2 Robin 15 



Vesper Sparrow 4 Bluebird i 



A total of 28 species and 139 pairs. 



Census made in June, 1915, by Mr. Arthur P. Stubbs at Thompson Farm in 

 Lynn, of about 160 acres, comprising about one-half swamp, and the rest dry 

 upland, with a few buildings : 



