The Birds’ Calendar 
time or another quite numerous in the Park: 
the grackle, robin, snowbird, European gold- 
finch, white-throat, fox sparrow, song sparrow, 
flicker, phoebe; white-breasted nuthatch, gold- 
crest, brown creeper, crow, pine warbler, yel- 
low-bellied woodpecker, cardinal, hermit thrush, 
chipper, crossbill, ruby-crowned kinglet, Ameri- 
ean goldfinch, red-poll, purple finch, white- 
breasted swallow, yellow-rump, red-breasted 
nuthatch, night heron, black-and-white creeper, 
towhee bunting, field sparrow, blue yellow-back, 
spotted sandpiper, Wilson thrush, wood thrush, 
black-throated green warbler, black-throated 
blue, Maryland yellow-throat, golden-crowned 
warbler, thrasher, and prairie warbler. 
Many an ornithologist throughout the coun- 
try can report a longer and more varied list 
for April than mine, with its paucity of water 
birds, and with none of the game birds, nor of 
the birds of prey. But certainly in the fore- 
going record is ample subject-matter wherein 
to find either relaxation or instructive stimu- 
lus. It can hardly be doubted that far more 
would make this pursuit an avocation, if they 
realized that the opportunities therefor lay so 
conveniently at hand. Flowers and birds are 
among the winged ministrants, rather than 
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