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varieties. In two hours on a Saturday afternoon 

 in May, 191 2, when the migration was at its 

 height, I saw more than thirty different species 

 of birds in Forest Park, Borough of Queens, New 

 York City. In all there were several hundred 

 birds, among them some, as the Parula Warbler, 

 the Water Thrush, and the Yellow-bellied Fly- 

 catcher, that are considered as comparatively 

 rare. Of the first two varieties named there 

 were scores if not hundreds of birds. To be sure 

 they were but travelers, halted for food and rest, 

 yet the opportunity offered to study them was ex- 

 cellent, as they were quite fearless. On the two 

 following Saturdays more than twenty varieties 

 were found on each visit, and several settled down 

 there to build their nests and rear their young. 

 For more than ten years I have visited Prospect 

 Park, Brooklyn, at all seasons of the year, ex- 

 cept midsummer, and on no occasion, even in 

 winter, have I failed to find some form of bird 

 life. Starlings, imported about twenty years ago 

 from England, have become very numerous, and 

 these talkative little fellows are in evidence at all 

 seasons of the year, during the fall and winter 

 usually in large flocks. Woodpeckers and Blue 

 Jays are permanent residents, while the summer 

 colony is a numerous one. 



In the many city parks which I have visited 

 here and abroad, wherever there are trees and 

 shrubbery, birds have been found. Even in the 

 Garden of the Tuileries in Paris, a much fre- 

 quented park in the heart of the city, I found 

 that delightful singer the European Blackbird, a 

 large Wood Pigeon, the Bullfinch and several 



