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4. OLIVE-BACKED THRUSH. Fairly common in summer in the higher spruce woods of Monadnock. Rare and local at the Dublin level, except in migration, when it is common everywhere. The Olive- back's charming song, to be heard any afternoon along the Monad- nock ridge, is somewhat like the Veery's song inverted, but tenderer. Early May to mid-October.
5. GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH. Uncommon migrant, in the latter
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half of May, late September, and early October. Does not nest here. Bicknell's Thrush, a smaller sub-species of the Gray-cheek, which has been found breeding on Mt. Greylock, undoubtedly occurs here, in migration, but we have never surely identified one.
6. WILSON'S THRUSH, VEERY. Common. Early May to Septem- ber. A bird of leaf-trees and the lowlands rather than of the evergreen forests.
7. WOOD THRUSH. Fairly common nowadays. This bird has been extending its range northward, and up mountain slopes. Rare here fifteen years ago, it has been gradually growing common. Partial to deep groves of leaf-trees, especially maples. Early May to Sep- tember.
8. RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET. Common in migration, from the middle of April to early May, and from early October to early No- vember. Does not nest here.
9. GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET. Common in migration, and fairly common in summer, in the spruce woods of Monadnock and the neigh- boring hills. Always here, except sometimes in mid-winter.
10. HUDSON'S BAY CHICKADEE. Very rare. We have seen it twice in the late autumn, in spruce woods at Monadnock's northern base. Does not nest here.
11. CHICKADEE. Very common all the year.
12. RED-BELLIED NUTHATCH. Rare in winter, more or less com- mon in summer, and often very abundant in the autumn migration. September to December.
13. WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH. Not common. Here all the year. This is a bird of leaf-trees, particularly large ones, about home- steads and villages, whereas the little Red-belly is a bird of the ever- green forests.
14. BROWN CREEPER. Rare in summer. Sometimes breeds on the northern slope of Monadnock. Common in migration, particularly in late September and October. Rare or absent in mid-winter.
15. SHORT-BILLED MARSH WREN. Very rare. I [Mr. Thayer] found one nesting pair for two successive summers in the marshes bordering the "Peterborough Stream" (or Dublin Lightworks water). Somewhere in these marshes, the birds could probably be found any summer.
16. WINTER WREN. Fairly common in summer on Monadnock, and wherever there is any heavy old growth among the neighboring hills. Its magically brilliant and dainty song may often be heard along the Monadnock ridge, from April to August. More common in the autumn, rare or absent in mid-winter.
17. HOUSE WREN. Rather rare, irregular, and late to arrive in the spring. Dublin is a little high and cold for house wrens.
18. BROWN THRASHER (erroneously called Brown Thrush). The bird is kindred to the wrens rather than the thrushes. Fairly com- mon, from early May to October.
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19. CATBIRD. Common, early May to late September.
20. AMERICAN PIPIT. Passes through in the spring and fall. Some- times fairly common in October; usually rather rare. Have seen two or three small flocks on the very top of Monadnock. Does not nest here.
21. AMERICAN REDSTART. Very common, late April to mid- September.
22. CANADA WARBLER. Common. Nests in damp woods with a great deal of undergrowth. Middle or late May to September.
23. WILSON'S WARBLER. Fairly common in the spring migration, during the second half of May. Apparently less common in the fall. Does not nest here.
24. (NORTHERN) MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT. Common every- where, even high on Monadnock. Early May to mid-October.
25. MOURNING WARBLER. Rare. A few seen in the spring, and only one in the fall. Late May to September. Does not nest here.
26. CONNECTICUT WARBLER. Middle of September to early Oc- tober. Usually rare, sometimes fairly common. Probably no spring record. Does not nest here.
27. LOUISIANA WATER-THRUSH. ("Thrush" is an old name and erroneous. These birds are really Warblers, like the Ovenbird.) As reported in "The Auk" for July, 1902, I [Mr. Thayer] saw one of these birds here on August 19, 1901. To make this record pass muster among bird-men, I should have shot the bird. This I tried, but failed to do. A straggler from the South, breeding as far north as southern Berkshire Co., Mass. Does not nest here.
28. NORTHERN WATER-THRUSH. Rather rare, in summer, nesting in several woodland bogs. Common in migration, almost throughout May, and from mid-August to October.
29. OVENBIRD. Abundant. Almost the dominant bird in sum- mer, and the chief night-singer. Its vigorous flight-song, given in the air above the tree-tops, is a common and familiar night sound through- out the first half of the summer. Early May to mid-September.
30. PRAIRIE WARBLER. A southern bird. One of the few Dublin (or even New Hampshire) records for this species is believed to be that of a male which was shot in 1909, in early May. Fairly com- mon no farther away than Cambridge, Mass. Does not probably nest here.
31. YELLOW RED-POLL WARBLER (or Yellow Palm Warbler). Com- mon migrant, most common in the fall. Latter half of April and early May; late September to early October. The true Palm Warbler (a subspecies, smaller, and duller in color) has not yet been surely identified here. Does not nest here.
32. PINE WARBLER. One or two singing males appear in Dublin about mid-summer, almost every year. Occasional in migration also. Nests in the white-pine groves of Keene, and perhaps even nearer Dublin; not certainly in Dublin.
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33. BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER. Very common, high and low, although partial to evergreens. Late April to mid-October.
34. BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER. Very common. A bird of the deep woods, partial to evergreens, and preferring big trees. Early May to late September.
35. BLACKPOLL WARBLER. Fairly common, sometimes abundant in migration. Early mid-May to second week in June; early Septem- ber to October. Most common in autumn, in immature plumage. Does not nest here.
36. BAY-BREASTED WARBLER. Migrant; sometimes common in spring, about the middle of May. September. Does not nest here.
37. CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER. Very common. A bird of the roadsides, scrub-lots, and lighter mixed woods. Early May to Sep- tember.
38. BLACK-AND-YELLOW (or MAGNOLIA) WARBLER. Common. Preëminently a bird of the spruces. Spruce copses bordering pasture- lands are its especial choice. Early mid-May to late September.
39. YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER (MYRTLE WARBLER). Common, and in migration abundant. A characteristic summer bird of the high Monadnock ridge, though it also nests at the Dublin level. Mid-April to November. Most abundant in October.
40. BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER. Common. A bird of the undergrowth in heavy woods. Early May to October.
41. YELLOW WARBLER. Rather rare in Dublin, though common in neighboring lowland towns. Not known to nest nearer than Marl- borough. Early May to late September.
42. CAPE MAY WARBLER. Very rare migrant; in late May and September. Does not nest here.
43. NORTHERN PARULA WARBLER, or USNEA WARBLER. Locally common in summer; very common in migration. It is believed that this bird is likely to be found where the usnea, or gray beard-moss of the North, is found. Such a nest was found in the Frost swamp a few years ago, which contained no other material, except for a scanty lining of wild cherry stems. All, or nearly all, the nests that have been found have been built in and almost wholly of this moss. Late April to September.
44. TENNESSEE WARBLER. Very rare migrant in late May. Does not nest here.
45. NASHVILLE WARBLER. A common and characteristic sum- mer bird. In June it is hard to get out of earshot of its sprightly song. Partial to gray-birch copses and overgrown pastures. Early May to late September.
46. GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER. Years ago, one of these birds was seen on the Jaffrey road. Locally common 80 miles from here (Cambridge, Mass., etc.). Does not probably nest here.
46. (Numbered as in the list copied. The bird numbered 46 above is so scarce here that Mr. Thayer evidently did not wish that it should
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be reckoned as a Dublin bird, in any official list.) BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER; or BLACK-AND-WHITE CREEPER. Common. Late April to September.
47. SOLITARY VIREO or BLUE-HEADED VIREO. Common from April to October. Partial to heavy growth containing evergreens.
48. WARBLING VIREO. Rare. A pair or two nest in the lower village. Partial to elms and maples in towns. Common in Keene.
49. PHILADELPHIA VIREO. Migrant, and not very rare in the fall, from late September to early October. A spring record had been secured from Fitzwilliam but none from Dublin. Does not nest here.
50. RED-EYED VIREO. Very common. The ceaseless voice of summer, - persistent through the dog-days, when most birds are still.
51. MIGRANT SHRIKE (the name now given to the north-eastern race of the LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE). A few years ago, in autumn, one was seen near the Hitchcock house (west of the lake). Does not nest here.
52. NORTHERN SHRIKE. Uncommon, in late fall and early spring. Apparently rare or absent in mid-winter. Does not nest here.
53. CEDAR BIRD OR CEDAR WAXWING. In summer always very common, from May to October. At other seasons irregular, and often absent.
54. BANK SWALLOW. Not common. There was once a colony near what is now Mrs. Amory's farmhouse. At present, probably there are none nearer than Marlborough, but the birds still appear in Dub- lin, but do not probably nest here.
55. WHITE-BELLIED SWALLOW or TREE SWALLOW. Fairly com- mon, nesting both in bird-houses and tree-holes. Late March to Aug- ust. Breeds early, and then makes for the sea-coast marshes.
56. BARN SWALLOW. Common, late April to September.
57. CLIFF SWALLOW or EAVE SWALLOW. Fairly common. Two or three colonies have been noted on barns in Dublin. [We may add that fifty years ago they were very abundant everywhere in this part of the country. Under the eaves of many barns might be seen two or more rows of their nests, extending the whole length of the barn, joining each other in a compact mass. They returned, year after year, to the same nests, and kept the premises in an untidy condition and were quite troublesome. - J. L. S.]
58. PURPLE MARTIN. The nearest tenanted Martin-houses that are known are in Hancock and Marlborough. The birds appear in Dublin now and then, but cannot be induced to take a house here, and do not probably nest here.
59. SCARLET TANAGER. Common from early May to September.
60. INDIGO BIRD. Fairly common in the lower, alluvial parts of the township. Late May to September.
61. ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK. Common from early May to Sep- tember. A great destroyer of potato bugs.
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62. TOWHEE or CHEWINK. Common, early May to October.
63. Fox SPARROW. Fairly common. Late or mid-March to late April, and late October to mid-November. Does not nest here.
64. SWAMP SPARROW. Common in all our large, swampy meadows, and in migration outside them also. April to November.
65. LINCOLN'S SPARROW. Fairly common, in late May and late September. A pair were found evidently breeding at Nubanusit Lake.
66. SONG SPARROW. Abundant, from middle of March to No- vember.
67. SNOWBIRD or JUNCO. Very common, and, in migration, abun- dant. Breeds on Monadnock, and scarcely less commonly at the Dublin level.
67 a. WESTERN JUNCO (Junco Hyemalis or Junco Oregonus or some intermediate species). Mr. Thayer observes that the names and relationships are still in dispute among bird-men. He adds: "Al- though Mr. Wm. Brewster could see no proof that the mutilated fragment of a specimen I sent him had not belonged to a common Junco, I have lived among Juncos too long to be easily persuaded that this bird, which I hunted all one autumn morning for its wholly new and peculiar notes, and finally shot to pieces, was not a straggler from the West. There are other such records in Massachusetts."
68. FIELD SPARROW. Common. April to late September.
69. CHIPBIRD Or CHIPPY [sometimes called the Hairbird. - J. L. S.]. This Chipping Sparrow is abundant from late April to mid-October.
70. TREE SPARROW or WINTER CHIPPY. Fairly common. October to December, and early March to late September. Does not nest here.
71. WHITE-THROATED SPARROW, PEABODY BIRD. In summer local and not common, in migration abundant. April to November; early May and October. One or two occasionally linger through December.
72. WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW. Late May and October. Some- times common in spring. Does not nest here.
73. HENSLOW'S SPARROW. Fairly common in the big Hancock meadow. Within the Dublin township limits, it has been found only once or twice. Late May to September?
74. SAVANNA SPARROW. In summer; uncommon; breeding in up- land pastures and big alluvial meadows. April to October. More abundant in migration.
75. VESPER SPARROW, or BAY-WINGED BUNTING. Fairly common, April to October.
76. SNOW BUNTING or SNOWFLAKE. Fairly common, but very irregular. October to April. Likely to appear first on Monadnock. Does not nest here.
77. PINE SISKIN. Common, sometimes abundant; very irregular. May breed here, as it has been seen in almost every month of the year, most commonly in the late fall.
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78. AMERICAN GOLDFINCH. Common, usually absent in mid- winter.
79. REDPOLL (LINNET). Very irregular, sometimes common. Oc- tober to April. Does not breed here.
80. WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL. Often common; very irregular. Almost certainly nests sometimes in the Monadnock spruce woods. It has been seen at all times of the year. Most common in the late fall.
81. American Crossbill. Common, but irregular. Doubtless some- times nests here.
82. English Sparrow. This powerful little vulgarian is well estab- lished in Dublin village, but does not wander abroad much.
83. PURPLE FINCH. Very common. March to May. Occasional in winter.
84. PINE GROSBEAK. Sometimes abundant, sometimes wholly absent. October to April. Does not nest here.
85. EVENING GROSBEAK. Mr. Thayer observes: "In the early winter of 1906, a flock of six stayed for two weeks or more about the house of Mr. Fred. C. Gowing. One, a fine male, the only one of the six that could then be found, I shot, on December 7, with the kind per- mission and help of the Gowings. This bird is now in our collection. As far as I can find out, this is the first sure record of the Evening Grosbeak's appearance in New England since the great invasion of 1890."
86. BRONZED GRACKLE or CROW BLACKBIRD. Rare and irregular in Dublin. Does not breed here. Breeds (or did breed a few years ago) in Keene.
87. RUSTY BLACKBIRD. Uncommon. In April and late September and October. Does not nest here.
88. BALTIMORE ORIOLE. Rather rare at the Dublin altitude; common in Keene. May to September.
89. MEADOWLARK. Mr. Thayer has only once or twice seen a meadowlark in Dublin. Fairly common in the Keene valley, where it nests. Does not nest here.
90. RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD. Common, in the few suitable marshes. March to August.
91. COWBIRD. Mr. Thayer observes: "This rascal is very rare in Dublin. We have seen it only once or twice, in early spring. Not rare in Keene, where it breeds. Does not nest here."
92. BOBOLINK. Fairly common in the larger mowings. Some years rare or absent.
93. AMERICAN CROW. Common, late February to December. Winters as near as Keene.
93 a. NORTHERN RAVEN. Mr. Thayer observes: "On July 4, 1903, a Raven flew over my camp on the Monadnock ridge. Later I learned to my dismay that one had escaped a few weeks before from the aviary of John E. Thayer, at Lancaster, Mass., less than forty
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miles away. There is every reason to believe it was his bird that visited Monadnock. The nearest legitimate Raven country is the middle, or middle-southern, Maine coast."
94. BLUE JAY. Common all the year, but most in evidence in winter.
95. SHORE LARK. Irregular and apparently rare. Winter. Does not nest here.
96. LEAST FLYCATCHER or CHEBEC. Very common. Early May to late August.
97. ALDER FLYCATCHER. (The eastern race of Traill's Flycatcher.) Fairly common, but very local. There seem to be only two or three places within this township where it can be found, in the nesting season.
98. YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER. Mr. Thayer observes: "Dub- lin is, I think, the only place south of the White Mts. where this bird has been found breeding. I discovered a pair here, several years ago, in the boggy woods whence, nowadays, five times a day the great scream issues. The birds were there for several successive summers; but I am afraid it is all up with them now. More common in migra- tion, - late May, early June, and early September.
99. WOOD PEWEE. Fairly common, from mid-May to September.
100. OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER. This fine bird is by no means common here nowadays; for some years it has been seldom seen. An inhabitant of heavy timber, mixed or coniferous. Late May to Sep- tember.
101. PHOEBE. Fairly common, nesting under bridges and about bath houses and other buildings. March to October.
102. GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER. Very rare. Arrives in late May or early June.
103. KINGBIRD. Common. Early May to late August.
104. RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD (females and young lack the ruby throat). Common, last of May to September.
105. CHIMNEY SWIFT (commonly, but mistakenly, called the Chimney Swallow). Common; end of April to late September.
106. NIGHTHAWK ("hawk" is a nickname, the bird being a mild, swallow-like cousin to the whippoorwill). Not common nowadays in summer. Nests on the bare Monadnock ridge, on high roofs in the heart of Keene, and on a few bleak hill-tops. Big or small migrating flocks trail over Dublin in the early autumn, travelling by day.
107. WHIPPOORWILL. Fairly common, but rather local; more common from Dublin downward, in all directions. Early May to late September.
108. NORTHERN FLICKER Or NORTHERN GOLDEN-WINGED WOOD- PECKER. Common, in migration abundant. Mid-April to November. 109. RED-HEADED WOODPECKER. Very rare and irregular. In twenty years, Mr. Thayer had seen about four. Late summer and autumn. Does not nest here.
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110. NORTHERN PLICATED WOODPECKER. Mr. Thayer observes: "This magnificent bird, still fairly common here, and apparently not decreasing, ought to be most rigorously protected. Local gunners and taxidermists in adjoining towns still occasionally kill one, I am afraid. The Plicated is the surgeon-general of our big timber, destroying borers and other pests deep in the tree-trunks, where nothing else can reach them. True, he makes great holes in the trees; but every tree he opens would probably have died without him, and he not only keeps the pest from spreading, but undoubtedly, by this heroic treat- ment, keeps individual trees, otherwise doomed, alive for years. Withal, he is a bird we should be proud of, for his size and beauty and distinguished habits, and because, over the greater part of the United States, he has become extinct, so that he may be looked on as a rarity." Nests and winters here.
111. YELLOW-BELLIED WOODPECKER or SAPSUCKER. Nests here, in big woods, but not very commonly. In migration (April, Septem- ber, and October), very common. This is the bird that bores the apple-trees. He drinks sap, but also eats insects that gather at the sap-holes. Does not winter here.
112. ARCTIC THREE-TOED WOODPECKER or BLACK-BACKED THREE- TOED WOODPECKER. Very rare and irregular. Spring, late autumn. Winter? Does not nest here.
113. DOWNY WOODPECKER. Fairly common all the year.
114. HAIRY WOODPECKER. Fairly common all the year; perhaps most so in winter.
115. BELTED KINGFISHER. Fairly common, from early April to November.
116. BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO. Mr. Thayer calls him the "most mysterious bird in America, a day-bird, always so-called, an eater of caterpillars, a gleaner in thickets, and a glider among apple-trees, who spends his nights in flying about, high in the empty air, over hills and forests! Almost any night, if you are out in some quiet place, you can hear his little gurgling cry, first overhead, then farther off, re- peated once or twice as the bird proceeds upon his journey. In Dub- lin, there is no other over-head night-sound half so common. More than this, the cuckoo seen and heard by day is nowhere near so com- mon as this night voice is. Shall we say, then, that the cuckoo is a night-bird? Why should he spend his time in going long journeys through the air? This would all be very well in the season of migra- tion; most day-birds migrate by night, flying high and far; but is the cuckoo migrating all summer, - back and forth in all directions?" On the contrary, Mr. Thayer observed a Cuckoo's nest, with young, on September 14th, in Dublin, and the birds first appear in May. "They often call from perches in the night-time, too; but then they more often use the reiterated 'cow, cow, cow' note. Sometimes again they give this call when they are passing over; but the little gurgle is their usual sky-note. Certainly they are strange sprites, - as yet quite unex-
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plained." [We have somewhat abridged Mr. Thayer's note upon this bird. - J. L. S.]
117. YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO. Uncommon and irregular. It is not known that it nests here. In most seasons none at all are seen; one year, they were fairly common for a few days in September.
118. AMERICAN HAWK OWL. One or two have been seen in the late fall and early winter. One, late in November, 1905, flew from a maple-tree near the Monadnock post-office and perched on the lightning-rod crowning one of the big chimneys on the Catlin house. Does not nest here.
119. GREAT HORNED OWL. Fairly common all the year. Most noisy in the fall and winter.
120. SCREECH OWL. Rare. Undoubtedly nests sometimes in the lower part of the township.
121. ACADIAN, or SAW-WHET, OWL. Sometimes fairly common in the late fall and early winter. Probably nests here. (Mr. Thayer and his father, a few years ago, saw, at night, what they believed to be a Richardson's Owl, but did not make sure.)
122. GREAT GRAY OWL. Mr. Thayer observes that a man in Ches- ham has one, stuffed, which was shot more than twenty years ago on Monadnock, near the Mountain Brook, in the late fall or winter. He thinks another such visitor may, some day, be seen, coming from the far north.
123. BARRED OWL. Common, - the commonest Dublin Owl, and the most noisy. Here all the year.
124. AMERICAN LONG-EARED OWL. Apparently rare; but un- doubtedly nests here, and winters also.
125. AMERICAN OSPREY or FISH HAWK. Fairly common in mi- gration. April and May, September and October. Ospreys are often mistaken for eagles. Do not nest here.
126. AMERICAN SPARROW HAWK. Rare here. It is not known to nest nearer than Keene.
127. PIGEON HAWK. This little bird-catching falcon of the north passes through Dublin in the spring and fall, but is never common. Does not nest here.
128. DUCK HAWK or AMERICAN PEREGRINE FALCON. Mr. Thayer observes: "The Peregrine, in some ways the finest bird that flies, is rare here, and does not nest (?) nearer than Berkshire and Franklin Counties, Mass., although a few years back we used pretty often to see a pair circling over Monadnock. A falcon aerie would add won- derfully to the charm of our little mountain, although it would mean losses in doves and poultry to the farmers of the region. (At least twice, in early winter, we have seen what was almost certainly a Gyrfalcon flying over Dublin; but, unfortunately, we have no proved record of that noble bird's occurrence here.)"
129. BALD EAGLE. Uncommon, says Mr. Thayer, and "I do not know of its nesting in this immediate region. We see about half a
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dozen eagles a year. My father once saw seven together, near the top of Monadnock, but they usually appear singly. Dublin Lake and Beech Hill are favorite points of call for eagles that come this way."
130. BROAD-WINGED HAWK. Common, April to October; some- times abundant in migration. The commonest and tamest Dublin Hawk. Feeds on snakes, frogs, and caterpillars.
131. RED-SHOULDERED HAWK. Rather rare and irregular. Absent in winter, but undoubtedly sometimes nests here.
132. RED-TAILED HAWK. Fairly common. Next to the Osprey, the biggest Hawk of this region. It is not the big Hawks, however, that do most of the poultry-stealing, but some of the middle-sized and small ones. The big ones are almost all beneficial to mankind, because of the great number of mice and other harmful rodents they destroy. The Red-tail is here the year round, but seems to be rare in mid- winter.
133. AMERICAN GOSHAWK. An autumn and winter visitant from the north, sometimes fairly common in November and December. This is the only big Hawk of our region that is much of a poultry- catcher, and, at the season of its visits, hens are likely to be safely housed. The Goshawk has been found nesting at Alstead, about twenty miles north-west of Dublin.
134. COOPER'S HAWK. Fairly common, April to October, most common in migration.
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