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May I to 5 

 Spotted Sandpiper, Hummingbird, Kingbird, Bobolink, Baltimore Oriole, Red- 

 eyed Vireo, Yellow-throated Vireo, White-eyed Vireo, Parula Warbler, Yellow Warbler, 

 Black-throated Green Warbler, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Ovenbird, Maryland Yel- 

 low-throat, Yellow-breasted Chat, Redstart, Wilson's Thrush, Olive-backed Thrush. 



May 5 to io 



Solitary Sandpiper, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Black-billed Cuckoo, Whip-poor-will, 

 Nighthawk, Crested Flycatcher, Orchard Oriole, Yellow-winged Sparrow, Rose- 

 breasted Grosbeak, Scarlet Tanager, Cliff Swallow, Rough-winged Swallow, Warbling 

 Vireo, Blue-winged Warbler, Golden-winged Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Long-billed 

 Marsh Wren. 



May io to 15 



Least Sandpiper, Wood Pewee, Green-crested (Acadian) Flycatcher, White-crowned 

 Sparrow, Indigo Bunting, Nashville Warbler, Worm-eating Warbler, Chestnut-sided 

 Warbler, Kentucky Warbler, Wilson's Warbler. 



May 15 to 20 

 Olive-sided Flycatcher, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Bay-breasted Warbler, Black- 

 poll Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, Small-billed Water Thrush, Canadian Warbler, 

 Gray-cheeked Thrush. 



May 20 TO 25 

 Alder Flycatcher, Tennessee Warbler, Mourning Warbler. 



Boys and girls who study birds are invited to send short accounts of their observations to 



this Department. 



The Legend of the Salt 



BY FRANK M. CHAPMAN 



A GREAT many years ago a little boy, whom I knew very well, 

 accepted the advice of an elder, and went out with a salt-cellar 

 to make friends with the birds. But they would not have him, 

 even with a 'grain of salt,' and it was not until he was considerably 

 older that he learned he had begun his study of birds at the wrong 

 end. That is, you know, the wrong end of the bird, for it is not a 

 bird's tail, but his bill, yovt must attend to if you would win his confi- 

 dence and friendship. 



So, instead of salt, use bread-crumbs, seeds, and other food, and 

 some day you may have an experience which will surprise those people 

 who would think it a very good joke indeed to send you out with a 

 salt-cellar after birds. I have recently had an experience of this kind. 

 It happened in the heart of a great city, surely the last place in the 

 world where one would expect to find any birds, except House Spar- 

 rows. But Central Park, New York City, the place I refer to, con- 

 tains several retired nooks where birds are often abundant. A place 



