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twice, the Baltimore Oriole I found at Rivermount Park only, 

 while the Grackles were confined almost entirely to Spring 

 Hill cemetery. It took me almost a week to find a good corner 

 for the study of the Warhlers, but here they were thick and 

 I have never made a better study of the Blackburnian, Chest- 

 nut-sided and Parula Warblers' songs than at this place. In 

 the intervals could be heard the low notes of a pair of Worm- 

 eating Warblers, the lazy weird song of the Prairie Warbler, 

 and above them all the strong chant of the Carolina Wren ; 

 while as soon as you stepped a little farther out of the forest, 

 Catbird, Brown Thrasher and Mockingbird were trying to 

 outdo one another. 



After having made a careful survey of this territory and 

 also of Rivermount Park, another splendid place for the birds, 

 where they seemed to have lost all shyness, and gaudy Sum- 

 mer and Scarlet Tanagers, Orioles and Wood Thrushes would 

 sit only a few feet away from you. I decided to make May 

 5th an All Day with the Birds, but I became ill and for three 

 days had a severe fever. As soon as it left me, however, I de- 

 cided I had to go at once, and May 8th found me at work. My 

 previous careful study enabled mie to come out of the woods 

 at 10 a. m. with 79 species seen, then I went to the James 

 River, but work there was a sore disappointment. No doubt 

 our secretary, Mr. John W. Daniel, Jr., whose home is at 

 Lynchburg, could have done far better than I did, as he no 

 doubt would know the haunts of the birds there. Suffice it 

 to say the James River only netted me eight new species in 

 three hours of the hardest kind of work, but it included a 

 species I had not yet seen here — the Warbling Vireo. River- 

 mount Park furnished the greatest surprise of the day — a 

 pair of Philadelphia Yireos, — a late date for this bird as also 

 for the Hermit Thrush, but in Lynchburg, as everywhere, the 

 past winter had been a severe one and no doubt this kept 

 back many a migrant. 



By 5 :30 p. m. I began to feel the effects of the three days 

 of fever and was compelled to go home and remain quiet, but 

 still I was able to add a few more, till at 9 p. m. the doleful 

 note of the Whippoorwill gave me my 105th species. Taking 

 into consideration my physical condition and the fact that 



