50 BIRDS OF THE 



circulate rather closely about its immediate 

 vicinity. 



The notes given under the various species 

 in the list which follows will show how fre- 

 quently this has been true in instances of 

 extended stay. The instances which are not 

 specially mentioned are very numerous. A 

 few examples may be cited here. A Black- 

 burnian warbler almost confined himself to 

 one silver maple during a four days' stay. 

 A Cape May warbler was found usually in 

 the same quarter of the Garden during a 

 four days' stay. An oven-bird walked back 

 and forth near a section of the Arlington 

 Street fence during a seven days* stay. A 

 tailless brown thrasher, which finally de- 

 parted with other thrashers, had occupied 

 the same section during a seven days' stay. 

 A late-coming, dull-colored hermit thrush 

 was daily seen in May within one small 

 area during a nine days' stay. Other ex- 

 amples might be given of the attachment 

 of visitants to a very limited area during 

 even an extended stay. The law very widely 

 applies, and general conformity to it on the 



