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AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



American Ornithology. 



A MAGAZINE DEVOTED WHOLLY 

 TO BIRDS. 



Published monthly by Chas, K. Reed, 

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 Edited by C. Albert Reed. 



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A Week With the Birds. 



Not long apo a friend and myself spent a 

 week among the birds in a beautiful little vil- 

 lage in the Connecticut valley. 



This Bird's Paradise was profusely decorated 

 with countless trees laden with apple, pear and 

 peach blossoms in all their sweetness; their 

 pink and white beauty enhanced by the emer- 

 ald background of velvety grass. The hill tops 



were clad in many soft shades of green; the delicate leaves of the white 

 birches, the darker maple leaves, the elms and oaks just putting forth their 

 tender foliage, with here and there a tall cedar lifting up its dark green 

 arms, and the creamy blossoms of the dog-wood, made a picture never to 

 be forgotten, of a world clad in beauty. 



Into the midst of this loveliness came the birds. The reception began at 

 an early hour. Ere the first rays of the sun had appeared, a gentle twit- 

 tering was heard, growing louder and louder as the day dawned, until the 

 air seemed alive with melody. 



