RECORDS, VOLUME XI, MARCH, 19] 9. 77 



PRELUDE TO MAY. 



Waken shrubbery ! 

 Wave your spray ! 

 Branching fingers 

 Outward lay ! 



Summer's warning 

 Calls its note 

 White butterflies 

 periscope. 



R— *. 



Saturday, May 3. Silver Hill. 



Pleasant, warm, 70° with a moderate we$t wind. Our 

 walk was was in the vicinity of Silver Hill and the Old 

 Mill, from 2 to 5 p. m. ; distance, 3 miles. Birds seen:- 



1. Marsh Hawk, ]. 



2. Crow, 6. 



3. Bronzed Grackle, 2. 



4. Red-winged Blackbird, 5. 



5. Bluebird, 4. 



6. Chimney Swift, 10. 



7. Blue-headed Vireo, 1. 



8. Robin, 7. 



9. Starling, 4, a pair nesting in hole in old sycamore. 



10. Chipping Sparrow, 3. 



11. Cowbird, 1. 



