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much less conspicuous sachems {Atalopedes cmnpestris), which from 

 time to time were seen on low-growing flowers. All the individuals 

 of both of these were much frayed and worn. Most surprising was 

 a female of Thanaos juvenalh, quite fresh, though with one wing 

 badly torn. A darker individual, presumably a male of the same 

 species, was seen to swerve toward it as it sat on a low-growing 

 aster, and dart away again. The only other skipper seen or taken 

 was a very worn male of HylephUa phylaetus. 



Along the road were a few buckeyes {Junonia lavinia)^ but the 

 viceroys {Basilarchia archippus) had disappeared. We caught, 

 however, a single badly broken male of the variegated fritillary 

 {Euptoieta cimcdia). 



Butterflies were very few about the muddy spots. Stray lesser 

 sulphurs and pearl crescents still hovered over them, and at one 

 of them we caught a hop merchant {Polygonia comma). 



A visit to the meadows on October 21 after a few cool days showed 

 the last appearance of the summer butterflies. Few flowers now 

 were left. The small white asters still bore numerous heads, but 

 these were widely separated on the branchlets and so were not con- 

 spicuous. The goldenrod was almost entirely gone. There were few 

 yellow daisies {Rudheckia Mrta and R. fulgida) and still fewer 

 white ones [Ghrysantheinv/ni leucanthemutn) . The Eupatorium 

 coelestinwni was about as abundant as before. Partridge-peas 

 {C hamaecrista chamaecrista) in flower still were common, and we 

 found some widely scattered dandelions and a few plants of the 

 pink gentian {Sabatia arigulata) with very numerous flowers. In 

 the last half of July this last had been the most abundant and con- 

 spicuous of the flowering plants found in these meadows, and large 

 areas were tinged a beautiful pink by it. 



In the woods the migrant birds were in very great abundance. 

 Most noticeable were large flocks of thrushes, some wood thrushes, but 

 chiefly thrushes of other kinds. Along the bushy margins of the 

 fields were great numbers of fox sparrows, j uncos, and white-throated 

 sparrows. Some of the last at intervals gave forth a rather weak 

 and somewhat imperfect song. In the open groves nuthatches were 

 very common. 



Tree frogs were extremely numerous about the streams, and the 

 marsh cricket frogs about the larger puddles in the field. None of 

 the last were singing. 



There had been a great decrease in the numbers of the butter- 

 flies. The lesser sulphur {Eurema lisa) still was common; most of 

 those seen were fresh, and all of them were males. There were 

 numerous yellow clover butterflies {Colias pMlodice), of which 

 nearly all were badly worn, though a few were fresh. The orange 

 clover {Colias ev/rythieme) , apparently hardier than the yellow one, 



