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THE BIRD-LIFE OF A YEAR. 25 
ulous cries of immature Baltimore Orioles are char- 
acteristic of the season. 
BIRDS OF THE MONTH. 
PerMayent Restpents (see page 6). 
Summer Resrpents (see page 10). 
Avevust. 
- With the majority of our nesting birds, family 
cares are ended in August, and at this season they 
completely renew their worn plumages by molting. 
As every keeper of cage-birds well knows, this is a 
trying period in a bird’s life. Wild birds molt more 
quickly than caged ones, and it is possible that the 
physical strain to which the growth of new feathers 
subjects them may be more severe. However this 
may be, birds when molting are less in evidence than 
at any other time. What becomes of many of our 
birds in August, it is difficult to say. Baltimore 
Orioles, for example, are rarely seen from August 1 
to 20, but after the latter date they reappear clad 
in new plumage and are then in nearly full song. 
So apparently complete is the disappearance of 
birds in August that before the fall migration daily 
brings new arrivals from the north, one may spend 
hours in the woods, and hear only the Red-eyed 
Vireo and Wood Pewee, August’s own songsters. 
Late in the month, migrants from the north will be 
found travelling through the woods in small com- 
panies, but the characteristic bird-life of August 
will be found in the marshes. There the Swallows 
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