DEC 31 1921 
42 PARK COMMISSIONERS’ REPORT. 
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THE BIRDS. 
By George M. Rubier. 
For its historical as well as its ornithological value, we reprint 
verbatim Dr. J. B. Holder’s Catalogue of Birds noticed in the 
vicinity of Lynn, Mass., during the years 1S44, 1S45, and 1846 
by the Lynn Natural History .Society. 
Dr. Holder, at one time city physician, was the founder of 
this Society and Museum. His list of birds was the first made 
in Essex County. Afterward, he with others organized the 
American Museum of Natural History, Central Park, New\ork, 
and was its curator of invertebrate zoology at the time of his 
death, 1S88. 
The bird student familiar with the present A. O. k . list will 
notice great changes in the classification as well as the nomen- 
o o 
clature. 
Most of the species mentioned are still represented in this sec¬ 
tion although the upland game birds, water-fowl and shore birds 
appear in much smaller numbers than in former years. 
The Passenger Pigeon, once very abundant, it is feared will 
soon have to be classed with the exterminated species, while the 
Esquimeaux Curlew, a bird once common in autumn migration 
on our coast, has been missed for several years. 
We are, however, visited regularly by several species not men¬ 
tioned in Dr. Holder’s list The mounted specimens of the birds 
which have probably been destroyed would have been of much 
interest to ornithologists to-day as several rare species are shown 
by the list to have been in the collection. 
It has been made possible to publish this list through the kind¬ 
ness of the Librarian of the Lynn Public Library. 
