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recovered his full powers of voice. On the twenty- 
ninth the phoebe came with his burden of sweet song, 
and the first of April brought Bewick’s wren — sweet- 
voiced Arion of the suburbs—and the chipping 
sparrow, whose slender peal of song rang through 
my study window. Here my record stops for the 
present year; but by reference to my last year’s 
notes (1891) it appears that Bewick’s wren did not 
then arrive until April tenth, and chippy not until 
April twelfth. The difference in the seasons is 
doubtless the primary cause of this divergence in 
the time of arrival. April brings many other winged 
pilgrims, —the white-throated and white-crowned 
sparrows, the thrushes, the orioles, the tanagers, 
the cat-birds, the swallows and swifts, and some of 
the hardier warblers, while the great army of war- 
blers delay their coming till the first and second 
weeks in May. And all the while we are having bird 
concerts, cantatas, oratorios, and opera festivals, 
mingled with some tragedy and a great deal of 
comedy, and there are love songs and cradle songs, 
matins and vespers, and twitterings expressive of 
every shade and variety of feeling. 
I yield to the temptation to add a brief article 
entitled ‘“‘ Watching the Parade,” which was pub- 
lished in a New England journal in the summer of 
1893, and contains a record of some observations 
made during the previous spring. By comparison 
with the preceding part of this chapter, it will indi- 
cate the versatile character of bird study in the 
