THE GALA DAYS OF BIRDS 



IGRATION is over, and the 

 great influx of birds which 

 last month filled every tree 

 and bush is now distributed over field 

 and wood, from our dooryard and lintel 

 vine to the furthermost limits of northern 

 exploration; birds, perhaps, having dis- 

 ' -^ covered the pole long years 



ago. Now every feather 

 and plume is at its brightest 

 and full development; for 

 must not the fastidious fe- 

 males be sought and won? 



And now the great struggle of the year is at hand, 

 the supreme moment for which thousands of throats have 



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