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suggested to him as an evolving ornitholo- 

 gist that he might find what he was seeking, 

 even the rarer warblers and thrushes and 

 finches, at his very door, so to speak, or 

 within five minutes' walk, in the centrally 

 located Public Garden. But it happened 

 on the ninth day of the said May that, hav- 

 ing been driven back from a quiet town on 

 the Sudbury River — singularly favored in 

 the richness of its bird-life through its di- 

 versity of natural attractions — by a sud- 

 den change of weather which had replaced 

 an early morning warmth of seventy de- 

 grees and a temperature ascending still 

 higher in the early forenoon with a cold 

 drizzle from the northeast, he sought in 

 the afternoon the Public Garden for possi- 

 bilities, inasmuch as the morning had indi- 

 cated a full tide of migration during the 

 previous night, and he felt disinclined to 

 lose a day's opportunity, if haply he might 

 find it in the Garden. 



Therefore great and happy was his sur- 

 prise to find that the place was well occu- 

 pied with migrants and that birds were 



