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Some species seem to be changed in habits in the fall migra- 

 tion, as the Myrtle Warbler and Harris's Sparrow. In the spring 

 we find them in the woods and brush-lands, but in the fall they 

 are largely confined to the fields and hedges separating bare 

 fields. In the spring the Myrtle Warbler bears'the other Warblers 

 company, but in fall he seems to prefer the company of the 

 Sparrows, always being found in company with the Chipping 

 Sparrow. The Harris's Sparrow is found in the near vicinity of 

 houses or barns in spring, but is never seen there in fall, pre- 

 ferring the hedge-rows. 



Some birds are more numerous in fall than in spring, and some 

 regularly found in spring are just as regularly not seen at all in 

 fall. I think that it has never been true that a species has been 

 found in the fall which has not been noted in spring. 



A further reference to the charts will reveal the fact that when 

 the spring movement is hurried and the stay short, the fall migra- 

 tion will be more leisurely and protracted. This applies to some 

 species of birds which do not nest here, but pass further north, 

 but it is not true of all such. 



We thus see that the two movements differ in two very impor- 

 tant particulars : the one is noisy and full of life, the other quiet 

 and unobtrusive. The one is in gala-day attire, the other in the 

 somberest dress. 



III. 

 BIRD MIGRATION AT OBERLIN, OHIO, FOR 1894. 



Probably no better opportunity will ever be afforded for a direct 

 comparison of the migrations in Iowa and Ohio than the present 

 one, so I will briefly discuss the migration of 1894 as a type of 

 what we may find at Oberlin. 



The village of Oberlin lies twelve miles south of Lake Erie, 

 and about midway between two rivers twelve miles apart, which 

 flow northward into the lake. Except the immediate river banks, 

 which are bluffy, the region is flat and was originally swampy with 

 a heavy growth of timber. At present nothing but the fragments 



