SEPTEMBER 181 



aside, the cheery melodies are apparently 

 forgotten, the pursuits and flirtings are all 

 over, and a quiet and sedate band of trav- 

 ellers they have become. 



The passage of these more extensive voy- 

 agers seems to set our own summer so- 

 journers to longing for their winter homes, 

 and one by one they will drop away. The 

 martins, that were scattered in little colonies 

 all over the countryside, will join in great 

 flocks and make the excursion together. 

 About the same time the Baltimore oriole 

 will leave her pendent cradle and take her 

 now grown children with her. The hum- 

 ming-birds with their glittering crests will 

 drop out, a few at a time, and cross the gulf 

 to join their tropical cousins. 



ALL-YEAR BIRDS 



Meanwhile some of our permanent birds 

 are beginning to get ready for winter by 

 changing their summer clothes. In the 

 spring-time every one so well knows and 

 loves one of our daintiest little birds that he 

 has received more names perhaps than any 



