VI. 



JUNE BIRDS. 



WORCESTER, June 9, 1887. 



MY DEAR MR. EDITOR, Of all months 

 in the year June is the month which all 

 lovers of bird-music can least afford to lose. 

 Before the first of June in this latitude all 

 the birds have come, and very few are 

 silent before the first of July. Since my 

 last letter the most prominent and best 

 known arrivals are the bobolinks, the king- 

 birds, the indigo-birds, the humming-birds, 

 and the cuckoos, the last being always the 

 tardiest of our birds to make their appear- 

 ance from the South. As the bluebird led 

 the van, so the cuckoo brings up the rear 

 of the great feathered army. 



