

VOL. 1 



GARLAXI), ME., NOV, IcSUO. 



NO. IX 



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NOVEMBER. 



Ill tlio f.il!, when collecting for the 

 ■t.'«soiii!;(l()iie,aud 1 he birds wliich breed 

 M itli us^ have winged their way to the 

 *suiHiv soutlj' a plesaeut means of re- 

 <-oiif'iliiig ourselves to the long winter, 

 is by taking a stroll to "the wood-land, 

 there to note the many migranla irom 

 the north as they tarry \«ith us for a 

 f<'w days or weeA;s as the case may be. 

 before following on the wa/i:e of our 

 summer residents. 



Oct, hth resolving to taA-e such a 

 stroil, 1 started in the company of i.iy 

 dog in the »lirection of a certain damp 

 thic/Vet, which in summer is one of my 

 favorite collecting grounds, and winch 

 i." also in spring, fall ;ind wintera favor- 

 ed retreat for mi^jrants, residents and 

 ^^i!lt«M■ \ isitants. As 1 neared the 

 t'.jic/rt'ta Marsh Hawk w hich had l)e(ni 

 pcnrched in a tree near by, spread his 

 wings and flew lazily away. Soon after 

 the dog started a rabbit and naxe chase 

 and as his bar/tS grew fainter in tlie dis- 



tance, I paiised to listen to the oird- 

 voices lor we were now fairly in the 

 thick'it 



Black-birds and Thrushes seemed to be 

 by far the most numerous^ and the nn;- 

 tallic notes of the Turple Oraklemiug - 

 ed well with the cries of the Rusty 

 Black-birds, and ever and anon, over 

 all came the '•'' Kong-quer-ree^ Kong-pver 

 ree" of the Red-wing, which is so we'd 

 described in Davie's '■'Nests and Eggs." 

 Robins were every where, and mingled 

 with them were a few pair of Olive- 

 backed I'hrushes, while keeping more, 

 by themselves were plenty (»f the Wil- 

 sO'i's Thrush. All these were migrants 

 from the north, for Avhiie the Pur}>le 

 Grakle, Red-winged Black-bird, Wilson 

 Thrush und American Kobin all breed 

 with us yet, wlih theexcepeion of the last 

 mentioned, t'lose breeding here had. I 

 believe, all tahuLi their departure ere ihis 

 ^br the south . 



While I listened to the song and clat- 

 ter <jf tiiese birds, tliere came ofa sudden 

 a single repetition of the Sonsr-sparrows 

 well-km')vyn ditty, that song which is so 

 inseperately linked with the warmest 

 weather of summer, sounding odd 

 enough through the rather chill autumn 

 air, but yet having in it something of 

 promise lor another year. In vain I 

 Searched the bushes fortiie many War- 

 blers and Sparrows seen thero oidy a 

 we"h beibre. but all were gone. Cut- 

 ting from a little maple sappling a fori: 

 in which was still firmly bound the 

 beautiful structure of the American 

 (johl-finch. 1 turned my way in the di- 

 rection of one side of the thicl'.et, where 

 on higher ground grew an open woods, 

 here a week be/ore I had seen many 



