Birds and Seasons loi 



With the young on the wing, our songsters grow less and less musical, 

 and by the middle of July most of them are silent, though the Red -eyed 

 Vireo and Indigo-bird may still be heard after the other voices have been 

 hushed. 



About July 15 we also begin to recognize visitors from near by that 

 did not breed immediately about us, and our rarer breeders are increasing 

 in number, while a tendency to flock is evident on all sides. This is 

 the beginning of the fall migration, and generally by July 30 we note 

 the first real stranger from the north — the Water-thrush. 



In July also we see the molt in progress: the annual shedding of the 

 worn breeding plumage and the substitution of a fuller feathering, which 

 is to serve as a winter wrap. Most young birds, too, have a molt at 

 this time and lose the scant ' juvenal plumage' which covered them when 

 they first launched forth from the nest. 



BIRDS OF THE SEASON 



For permanent residents, see Bird-Lore, December, 1900, p. 183. 



Night Heron, Green Heron, Least Bittern, Killdeer, King Rail, Virginia Rail, 

 Spotted Sandpiper, Turkey Vulture, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Kingfisher, Flicker, Red- 

 headed Woodpecker, Hummingbird, Chimney Swift, Night Hawk, Kingbird, Crested 

 Flycatcher, Pewee, Wood Pewee, Green-crested Flycatcher, Orchard Oriole, Baltimore 

 Oriole, Red-winged Blackbird, Purple Grackle, Cowbird, Indigo-bird, Towhee, Chip- 

 ping Sparrow, Grasshopper Sparrow, Vesper Sparrow, Scarlet Tanager, Barn Swallow, 

 Rough-winged Swallow, Bank Swallow, Red-eyed Vireo, White-eyed Vireo, Ovenbird, 

 Maryland Yellow-throat, Blue-winged Warbler, Black and White Warbler, Kentucky 

 Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Worm-eating Warbler, Chat, Long-billed Marsh Wren, 

 House Wren, Brown Thrasher, Catbird, Wood Thrush, Robin, Bluebird. 



Rare or Local Breeders. — Wood Duck, Field Plover, Osprey,* Black-billed Cuckoo, 

 Whip-poor-will,* Least Flycatcher, Cliff Swallow, Purple Martin,* Yellow-throated 

 Vireo, Warbling Vireo, Prairie Warbler,* Pine Warbler,* Louisiana Water-thrush, 

 Redstart, Rose-breasted Grosbeak. 



* Plentiful in southern New Jersey. 



JUNE AND JULY BIRD-LIFE NEAR OBERLIN, OHIO 



By Lynds Jones 



During the whole of June there are present only the summer resident 

 species, if we except an occasional stray drake Mallard. The closest 

 scrutiny of June bird -life has failed to bring to light any movement of spe- 

 cies either northward or southward, but there may be movement of some 

 individuals of the latest spring arrivals northward in early June, and a slight 

 southward movement among the earlier breeders of the earliest arrivals, late 

 in the month. Thus the Bronzed Grackles and Robins begin to gather 

 in considerable flocks, to form roosts, even late in May. The movement 

 is no doubt rather a preparation for migration than an actual migration. 

 In the list of summer residents I have included eight species which do 



