. Bird lore . d nestquarters of a mileseemed more dangerously placedthan the first. I discovered itJune 14, while riding by in a car-riage. A Sandpiper flew up fromthe grass twelve feet from the roadand about one hundred feet froma pond. I alighted and found thenest, with four eggs, just wherethe bird flew up. It was placed inthe grass and clover, and wasmade of rather finer material thanthe other nest. As in the first one,the eggs were placed with thesmaller ends pointing I went to it the next day,I approached within ten feet be-fore the bird flew, stopping amoment in the road nea
. Bird lore . d nestquarters of a mileseemed more dangerously placedthan the first. I discovered itJune 14, while riding by in a car-riage. A Sandpiper flew up fromthe grass twelve feet from the roadand about one hundred feet froma pond. I alighted and found thenest, with four eggs, just wherethe bird flew up. It was placed inthe grass and clover, and wasmade of rather finer material thanthe other nest. As in the first one,the eggs were placed with thesmaller ends pointing I went to it the next day,I approached within ten feet be-fore the bird flew, stopping amoment in the road nearby. OnJune 23 my friend photographedthe nest. A week later, when weexpected to find a happy family,there were only three cold eggsand a broken shell filled withants. The field had been mowedand the protecting grass and clovercut away. It would seem that proximityto civilization does not help the Sandpiper in raising its young. The sea-beaches and wilder inland ponds would probably provide safer NEST AND EGGS OF SPOTTEDSANDPIPER The Massachusetts Audubon Societys Bird-Lists FOLLOWING the established custom, various members of the Massa-chusetts Audubon Society have recorded the birds observed by them inMassachusetts during the year. Eight lists of species noted in 1912have been received by the Secretary of the Society, made by the following mem-bers: Harold L. Barrett, Jamaica Plain, 244 species; Anna K. Barry, Dor-chester, 173 species; F. A. Scott, Belmont, 170 species; Rev. Robert F. Cheney,Southboro, 134 species; Harold W. Copeland, Bridgewater, 86 species; HoraceMcFarlin, Bridgewater, 80 species; Edwin H. Merrill, Winchendon, t,^ species;Florence V. V. Storer, Winchendon, 20 species. The two lists first mentionedare published herewith. Name of Species Holboells Grebe Horned Grebe Pied-billed Grebe Loon Red-throated Loon Black Guillemot Briinnichs Murre Razor-billed Auk Pomarine Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger Kittiwake Great Black-backed Gull. Herring Gull Ring-bill
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