APPENDIX C 



List of the Birds of Milton 



Dr. Harris Kennedy, Boston, August 20, 1914. 



286 Warren Street, 

 Roxbury, Mass. 



My dear Dr. Kennedy: 



I enclose herewith two lists of birds — the first being a list 

 made up from my annual lists which I have kept during the 

 past eleven years, of birds seen and identified in and about 

 Milton and the neighboring towns. 



The other list is of birds that I have seen in Eastern Massa- 

 chusetts and on the waters and bays of Massachusetts (but 

 not in the immediate vicinity of Milton) during substantially 

 the same period, that is, the last eleven years. 



During the past six years I have kept the lists very care- 

 fully, with dates of the first appearance of the birds, and 

 memoranda of the approximate length of periods which they 

 continue with us. 



I have usually carried field-glasses around with me when 

 looking for birds during the last six years and most of the 

 identifications are pretty certain. I have put a question-mark 

 after those of which I have any reasonable doubt as to their 

 correct identification, and have made a memorandum of those 

 which I have only found in one instance. I have some doubt 

 as to the year that I last saw a Purple Martin, in Milton, and 

 think it may have been even more than ten years ago, but I 

 have entered it, as I used to see them annually, and I have 

 very recently seen them in the neighborhood of Middleboro 

 and Concord. 



I have decided not to send you a copy of the " Rules for the 

 Bird Contest" which I have been using, partly for the reason 

 that with the younger children whom I have interested it has 

 seemed a little too complicated and they have not managed it 

 well, and I believe that in order to arouse the interest of chil- 

 dren from 8 to 14 years I shall have to devise some simpler 

 plan than that which I have used. 



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