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THE island of Nantucket is some thirty miles off the southern coast of the State of Massachusetts, and has an area of about forty-five square miles. Various small islands, such as Tuckernuck and Muskegt, to the north-west are included in the area. The indigenous fauna consists of a few small mammals and some eight birds, so far as can be estimated from old records. The flora is likewise limited, but Scotch firs have been planted and the heather brought with them has become established in places. In sheltered hollows and near the towns there are deciduous trees.
The Birds of Nantucket
By Ludlow Griscom Edith V. Folger. (New England Bird Studies, 1.) Pp. xi+156+16 plates. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1948.) 18s. net.
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KINNEAR, N. The Birds of Nantucket. Nature 163, 385 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163385a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163385a0