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sparrows, and other sparrow visitants with- 

 in the Garden, which come, as they do year 

 by year, in the larger migratory flights with 

 the warblers and thrushes in the middle and 

 even later portion of May, are likely to be 

 on their way with these more northern-nest- 

 ing birds to points far beyond, while in the 

 case of a few very early arriving birds, as 

 hermit thrushes, for example, it is thought 

 that they may very likely be the summer 

 resident birds of the State. This in its en- 

 tirety is Mr. William Brewster's view. This 

 view explains, perhaps, the fact of the very 

 long-drawn-out period of migration which 

 the records indicate is common in the case 

 of the above-named sparrows and occurs 

 in the case of the hermit thrush also, but 

 with this difference, that with the latter 

 species the few visitants are the early birds 

 and with the former the few visitants are 

 the late birds. 



But not only does it appear that the ear- 

 lier arriving visitants in the Garden may 

 be summer resident birds of the State and 

 the later arriving birds be migrants on their 



