Miscellaneous Bird Notes.
1902
  A Worm-eating Warbler was shot on April 16, 1902,
at Salem Willows, Mass. by J. H. Sears. The bird is
now in the Peabody Academy collection at Salem
(Walter Deane in lit.).
Worm-eating Warbler at Salem, Mass.
  A Partridge's nest "full of eggs" was found near
the Golf Links on the hill-top behind Belmont village
on May 15th by O. A. Lothrop (W. Deane in lit)
Partridge's nest in Belmont.
  Mr. Grey Emerson (of 78 Powell St. Brookline)
writes me that on April 19th he saw three Lesser
Scaup Ducks (1 male & 2 females) on Fresh Pond.
He adds that they had been seen there the day
before (18th) by Mr. Horace Wright,
Lesser Scaup Ducks on Fresh Pond in April.
  Mr. Grey Emerson writes me that Horace
Wright saw a Ruddy Duck in Fresh Pond on
April 18th and that on the following day (19th)
he (Mr. Emerson) found five there. In response to
a question from me he adds in a later letter: "I 
saw no adult male among the Ruddy Ducks.
My friends saw one, however.
  Mr. Grey Emerson further informs me by letter that
he found a Tennessee Warbler in Brookline, Mass.
on May 21st.
Tennessee W. in Brookline
  Mr. Earle Stafford (of 50 Irving St. Cambridge)
writes me that a Lincoln's Finch was seen by him "on
a small wooded island in marsh to west of center of the Willows",
Belmont on May 18th & another in "the gardens" (Public Garden? Boston)
the day before.
Lincoln's Finch in Public Garden & at Rock M. Belmont.
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