40 BIRDS OF THE 



finch and that the warblers constituted over 

 seventy-one per cent of the flock. Nearly 

 all of these migrants departed the following 

 night, and then the numbers of visitants 

 present were comparatively small to the end 

 of the month. 



These nine lists have been given in the 

 thought that they may serve for compari- 

 son in succeeding years by observers who 

 may be making up the census of the mi- 

 grant birds in these larger migratory flights 

 which occur year by year. They will serve 

 also to show whether in the years to come 

 the flights are larger or smaller or average 

 about the same in a longer series of years. 

 It is of interest that the figures show that 

 in the last two years the largest flights in 

 the series of nine years have occurred. 



In presenting exact daily records it must 

 not be supposed that the compiler thinks 

 that he has been able to record every mi- 

 grant which day by day may have visited 

 the Garden. But his enrollment has pro- 

 ceeded with system and been done with a 

 view to its being thorough and as nearly 



