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THE BIKD-LIFE OF A YEAR. 



May is preeminently the month of courtship, which 

 finds expression chiefly in song. Many species begin 

 to nest in iray, but the nesting season reaches its 

 height the following month. 



BIRDS OF THE MONTH. 



Permaxhnt Residents (see page 6), 



Migrants. 



Plate 

 No. 



May 1 to 10. 



10. Common Tern. 



Solitary Sandpii)er.* 

 10. Semipalmated Plover.* 

 22. Yellow-billed Cuckoo. 



Black-billed Cuckoo. 

 27, 91. Nighthawk. 



29, 91. Ruby-throated Hum- 



mingbird. 

 31, 91. Crested Flycatcher. 



30. Kingbird. 



35. Baltimore Oriole. 



36. Orchard Oriole. 

 38, 91. Bobolink. 



Grasshopper Sparrow. 

 83. Indigo Bunting. 

 54. Rose-breasted Grosbeak. 

 85. Scarlet Tanager. 

 59, 91. Red-eyed Yireo. 



AYarbling Yireo. 

 59. Yellow-throated Yireo. 



White-eyed Yireo. 



Nashville \Varbler.* 



Blue-winged Warbler. 



Parula Warbler. 



Black-throated Blue War- 

 bler.^ 



Plate 

 No. 



Magnolia Warbler.* 



Chestnut-sided Warbler. 



Prairie Warbler. 



S m a 1 1 - b i 1 1 e d ^^' a t e r 

 Thrush.* 



Hooded Warbler. 



87. Yellow Warbler. 



G4, 98. IMaryland Yellowthroat. 



65. Yellow-breasted Chat. 



63, 91, 97. Oven-ljird. 



62. Redstart. 



68, 91. House Wren. 



88, 99. Catbird. 



74, 100. Wood Thrush 

 73. Yecry. 



May 10 to 20. 



33. Wood Pewee. 



Acadian Flycatcher. 

 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher * 

 White-crowned Sparrow. * 

 Golden- winged Warbler.* 

 Tennessee Warbler.* 

 Worm-eating Warbler. 

 Cape May Warbler.* 

 Blackburn ian Wai'bler. * 

 Bav-breasted Warbler.* 



* Transient Yisitant passing further north. 



