September 
From the middle of June to the middle of 
September the advantages of the Park (and of 
any other locality similarly circumstanced) for 
the naturalist are slight. Indeed, one is likely 
to see more there in mid-winter than in mid- 
summer. For, although the number of winter 
species is quite inconsiderable as compared 
with those of summer under equally favorable 
circumstances, yet such a spot as the Park is a 
favorite one in the coldest weather, not only on 
account of the abundance and variety of trees, 
shrubs, and flowering plants affording varied 
nutriment in their store of insects, larvee, seeds, 
and berries, but because of the quiet that pre- 
vails at that season, when pleasure-grounds are 
free from the throng of promenaders and the 
shouts of children, and afford that repose of 
nature without which birds can hardly be in- 
duced to frequent any locality, however at- 
tractive in other respects. As warm weather 
approaches, and the walks in all directions be- 
come little better than public thoroughfares, 
and often quite as noisy, the most of the birds 
very wisely withdraw to more sequestered 
places, and the current of life runs low until 
it expands again in the fall. During this peri- 
od one can find in the Ramble little else than 
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