June 
about the first or second week in June—the 
fever abates (with a slight relapse in the fall 
months), and recovering his mental equipoise 
he will, if a true ornithologist, sit down com- 
fortably for a time, and with fewer of his winged 
friends around him, derive a deeper satisfaction 
in the cultivation of a closer acquaintance. 
He then realizes, for a full enjoyment of the 
finest aspects of nature, and to come into 
closest sympathy with all its life, how indispen- 
sable is a spirit of /e¢sureliness, which has such 
an absorbent quality. Only in this way, which 
in regard to some species of creation may mean 
years of patient observation, can one arrive at 
anything like an adequate knowledge of the 
higher forms of animal life, with their manifold 
instincts and countless diversities. 
.) 
Two of the migrants, still lingering into 
June, deserve a special word. A fine, insect- 
like sound, soft, and yet seeming to Jervade the 
air, so that it was impossible to locate it, one 
afternoon apprised me of a probable new-comer. 
There were still a few species due and overdue, 
and this unfamiliar sound was probably from 
one of them. Endeavoring to locate it, I went 
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