HiTNT — With Beach Birds and Botanists. OT 



were seen or the tinkling of their calls was heard from the fields 

 or from the air as they flew over the valley from field to field. 

 It has never been my lot to see as numierous a host of these 

 birds. They associated with Vesper and English Sparrows, 

 and with Cowbirds, and were more numerous than all of them 

 together. Some of the young were molting, but all of the adults 

 had completed the molt before the beginning of my observations 

 at the camp. 



Sallies into the woods and fields from the camp brought to 

 light forty-seven species for the ten days, of which twenty- 

 seven might be said to be singing birds, and of this number 

 fifteen were in full voice, at some time during the day. It 

 should be remarked, however, that the singing individuals 

 seemed to form a small minority of the individuals of the 

 species, except in the case of the Goldfinches, Carolina Wrens 

 and Cardinals. 



I was unable to find a single migrating bird. This was some- 

 wliat of a disappointment, since migrating individuals of certain 

 species had been reported from Detroit before the lOth of the 

 month. If southward migrations occur in this part of the state 

 they must be represented by very few individuals or there would 

 be some records made. Possibly we are so far out of the line 

 of southward movement that it is only at flood tide that the mi- 

 grants reach us. 



To the doubting Thomases I am glad to be able to say that 

 bird study in August is both pleasant and feasible. The ter- 

 rors of heat and insect are mlore in the imagination than reality. 

 I say this not after a single experience, but after a trial of 

 several years in regions which insects infest in numbers, and 

 under conditions of high temiperatures. The profit in the study 

 is s:reat. 



TWO DAYS WITH THE BEACH BIRDS AND BOTAN 



ISTS. 



i;V CHRlvSWKI.l, HUNT. 



When asked to accompany the Philadelphia Botanical Club 

 on a field trip to Stone Harbor. X. J., on September ;5d and Jth, 

 I gladly accepted the invitation. To be sure it was not an or- 



