A BE VIS ED LIST OF 
THE BIRDS OF BROOKLINE, 
MASSACHUSETTS. 
BY REGINALD HEEER HOAVE, JUNIOR. 
From time to time, beginning in 
1897, with the aid of various persons, 
I have published in The Chronicle lists 
and notes on the birds of this town. 
As in the future I am to be absent 
from Brookline, I desire to leave what 
little work I have done on the tovm's 
avifauna complete so far as I can 
make it, trusting that others will 
carry on the imxoortant mission of 
recording new facts which from year 
to year are sure to be gleaned. 
Brookline in the past twenty-five 
years has changed materially, though 
in comparison with the changes of 
civic growth, the birds, contrary to 
general opinion, have changed but 
little. 
The town is blessed with many 
birds, though evidently situated 
topographically out of the direct 
eastern Massachusetts migration 
waves, shown by the later dates of 
arrival of spring migrants, as com- 
pared with neighboring towns. A 
single observer this May has seen 
ninety species. Such changes as 
have taken place in the Muddy river 
region have naturally driven out 
species like the Long billed Marsh 
Wren and other retiring swamp-loving 
biris. But speaking generally, Brook- 
line has lost few birds on account of 
the advances of civilization, and each 
year is apt to add, as the present has, 
new species to the list of those re- 
corded, rather than to place some in 
the rare or extirpated category. 
It is with much plea^sure on leaving 
active ornithological work in Brook- 
line that I know there are many com- 
petent observers to record observations 
in the future, and I have to thank 
them for much generous aid in the 
past: Mr. Frederic H. Kennard, Mr. 
Nathaniel A. Francis, Mr. George C. 
Shattuck, Mr. Walter P. Henderson, 
Mr. L. F. Foster, Miss Minna B. 
Hall, Mr. Louis Aga^ssiz Shaw, Messrs. 
Francis G. and Maurice O. Blake, 
Mr. G. Emerson, and others. 
