66 Bird -Lore 



the closing days of the month, but the opening daj^s of May are surer by 

 the rule in finding them here. 



May is the month of bees, bird music and wild flowers, and possibly is 

 the gayest of all gay periods of the year. To the true nature lover it encom- 

 passes a season of really pronounced pleasures. 



Who has not for ever to be associated in his memory the O-yes-I-am-a- 

 pretty- bird- pretty -bi7-d of the Baltimore Oriole, the apple blossoms and 

 the Warblers? 



The Flycatchers and Vireos, too, are upon the calendar, in addition to 

 the smaller Thrushes and Scarlet Tanager, whose fiery tropical plumage, 

 in the case of the latter, very strikingly offsets the more somber tints of 

 many of our commoner birds. 



The bulk of our Warbler hosts and the Thrushes continue onward to 

 their more northern summer homes, and with us, are simply transients. 



BIRDS OF THE SEASON 



For permanent residents and winter visitants, see Bird-Lore, Dec, 1900, p. 187. 



April and May Migrants, showing extreme dates of arrival and departure of transient 

 visitants, from data collected at Glen Ellyn, Illinois, during the past eight years: April 

 I, Turkey Buzzard;* 1-8, Lesser Scaup Duck;* 1-22, Wilson's Snipe;* April 2 to 

 May 5, Loon;* April 2 to May 10, Winter Wren; April 2 to May 19, Blue-winged 

 Teal;* April 4, Tufted Titmouse;* April 4 to May 16, Sparrow Hawk;* April 8-27, 

 Hooded Merganser;* April 8 to May 18, Myrtle Warbler; April 8 to May 24, Pine 

 Siskin; April 9 to May 20, White-throated Sparrow;* April 10-19, Greater Scaup Duck; 

 April 10 to May 25, Broad-winged Hawk;* April 11 to May 10, Pectoral Sandpiper; 

 April 14, Green-winged Teal* and American Coot;* April 14-17, Red-throated Loon; 

 April 14 to May 25, Water Thrush;* April 15, American Pipit; April 15-26, Great Blue 

 Heron; *April 15 to May 5, Yellow-Legs;* April 17-24, Pine Warbler;* April 19, Buffle- 

 head Duck; April 19 to May 21, Whip-poor-will;* April 23 to May 13, Palm Warbler; 

 April 23 to May 30, Olive-backed Thrush;* April 24 to May 21, Red-breasted Nut- 

 hatch;* April 24 to May 25, White-crowned Sparrow; April 24 to May 29, Wilson's 

 Thrush;* April 27 to May 21, Solitary Sandpiper;* April 27 to May 25, Nashville 

 Warbler;* April 28, Bald Eagle;* April 28 to May 26, Swamp Sparrow;* April 29 to 

 June 4, Black-throated Green Warbler;* April 30 to May 9, Cape May Warbler; April 

 30 to May 21, Ruddy Duck;* April 30 to May 26, Tennessee Warbler; May 1-21, 

 Orange-crowned Warbler; 1-23, Black-and-white Warbler;* 1-28, Alice's Thrush; 

 2-27, Black-throated Blue Warbler; 2-30, Black-poll Warbler; 3-28, Parula Warbler;* 

 4, LeConte's Sparrow and Least Sandpiper; 4-18, Golden-winged Warbler;* 4-25, 

 Magnolia and Blackburnian Warblers; 5-16, Bank Swallow;* 6-21, Willow Thrush; 

 6-26, Canadian Warbler;* 7, Kirtland's Warbler ; 7-30, Wilson's Warbler; 8-23, Bay- 

 breasted Warbler; 9-18, Blue-headed Vireo; 12, American Merganser; May 12 to June 8, 

 Connecticut Warbler; May 13, Wood Duck* and Prothonotary Warbler;* 13-27, Olive- 

 sided Flycatcher; 15, American Osprey;* 18, Philadelphia Vireo;* 18-27, Mourning 

 Warbler;* 19, Harris' Sparrow, Belted Piping Plover*(?) and Forster's Tern ;* 20-25, 

 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher; 21, Yellow-headed Blackbird;* May 24 to June 5, White- 

 eyed Vireo.* 



Latest dates of departure of winter residents and early spring migrants: March 17, 



* Summer resident in northern Illinois. 



