SPECIAL REPORT 
ON THE 
Decrease of Certain Birds, and its Causes, 
WITH 
Suggestions for Bird Protection. 
By EDWARD HOWE FORBUSH, 
Ornithologist, Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture 
Prepared under the Direction of the Massachusetts State Board 
of Agriculture, 1904. 
Second Edition. Revised June, 1908. 
BOSTON: 
WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS, 
18 Post Office Square. 
1908. 
