SEPTEMBER 



|ITH September begins the first move- 

 ment of ebb-tide, made apparent 

 partly by the complete disappear- 

 ance of a few species of birds, but 

 still more by the gradual gathering of the gre- 

 garious varieties into large flocks, to wander 

 hither and thither until the full time for mi- 

 gration arrives. 



Almost the first species that we lose sight of 

 is the summer yellow bird, which leaves very 

 promptly at the beginning of the month, its 

 departure the more evident because it is so 

 ubiquitous through the summer. The crow- 

 blackbirds — the vampires of the Park — disap- 

 peared at the same time, not so tender, how- 

 ever, as to be frightened away by the first 

 autumn chill, like the yellow warbler, for they 

 are among the first to arrive in early spring, 

 and are tough birds in every sense ; but from 

 now until late in the fall, when they retire to 

 the South, they are gathered in even larger 



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