. . n to breed in Georgia (Wayne), and in SouthCarolina, Kentucky and Ohio (Audubon). Stone regards itas apparently much more plentiful formerly than now in NewJersey. It has been found breeding in New York, not onlyin the northern highlands, but in several counties (Eaton).Boardman found it breeding abundantly in Maine, but nowKnight lists it as a rare breeder. It seems probable that itonce bred in Massachusetts, but there is no record, althoughit has been noted here in summer. My correspondents in 1908 did not report this bird from
. . n to breed in Georgia (Wayne), and in SouthCarolina, Kentucky and Ohio (Audubon). Stone regards itas apparently much more plentiful formerly than now in NewJersey. It has been found breeding in New York, not onlyin the northern highlands, but in several counties (Eaton).Boardman found it breeding abundantly in Maine, but nowKnight lists it as a rare breeder. It seems probable that itonce bred in Massachusetts, but there is no record, althoughit has been noted here in summer. My correspondents in 1908 did not report this bird fromBerkshire or Franklin County. From the other counties tenreport an increase and thirty-one a decrease. It is not notedas common anywhere, except in northern Essex County, whereMr. E. W. Eaton of Newburyport reports it as not uncommonin Hampton River near the New Hampshire boundary, andDr. John C. Phillips sees it not uncommonly in Wenham Lake,in the towns of Beverly and Wenham, where he records thecapture of forty-four birds in ten years (only one of which was. PLATE II. Two Baldpates attracted by tame Mallards on Leverett Pond, Boston.(Photograph by W. Charlesworth Levey.)
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