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BIRDS AND SEASONS 



unlike the one in which they arrived from the South— as 

 the student will discover, sometimes to his confusion! 

 In August, the Month of Molt, the seclusion sought by 

 many of our summer birds induces the belief that they 



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have left us, but toward the latter part of the month they 

 reappear. The first week in August virtually marks the 

 end of the song season. The Wood Pewee and Red-eyed 

 Vireo remain in voice throughout the month, but the 

 great chorus which has made May, June and most of 

 July vocal, we shall not hear before another spring — so 



