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THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



BIRDS OF THE MONTH. 



Permanent Residents, see page 85. 



Summer Residents, see page 86. 



Summer Residents leaving for the South. 



September 1 to 10. 



Rough-winged Swallow. 



Worm-eating Warbler. 

 Blue-winged Warbler. 

 September 10 to 20. 



Yellow Warbler. 



Yellow-breasted Chat. 

 September 20 to 30. 



Rose-breasted Grosbeak. 



Yellow-throated Vireo. 



Warbling Vireo. 



Hooded Warbler. 



Louisiana Water-Thrush. 



Veery. 

 Migrants arriving from tlie North. 

 September i to 10. 



Black-poll Warbler. 

 Connecticut Warbler. 

 September 10 to 20. 



Olive-backed Thrush. 



Bickncll's Thrush. 

 September 20 to 30. 



Myrtle Warbler. 



Yellow Palm Warbler. 



Brown Creeper. 



Golden-crowned Kinglet. 



Ruby-crowned Kinglet. 



Winter Wren. 



Gray-cheeked Thrush. 



-Early October generally brino^.s tJTc fir.st 

 killing frost, depriving insectivorotis birds of a large part of their 

 food and forcing them to journey southward. Flycatchers, War- 

 blers, Vireos and Swallows now take their departure, and after 

 the 15th of the month few insect-eating birds remain, except those 

 which, like Woodpeckers, feed on insect's eggs or larvae. 



This is the season of Sparrows. In countless numbers they 

 throng old stubble, potato and corn fields, doing untold good by 

 destroving the seeds of noxious weeds. With these birds will be 

 the lately arrived Juncos, Tree Sparrows and h^ox Sparrows. When 

 disturbed, all seek shelter in the nearest hedgerow, and their 

 mingled notes produce a twittering chorus in which it is difficult to 

 distinguish the voices of individual birds. 



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Acadian Flycatcher. 

 Orchard Oriole. 



Baltimore Oriole. 

 Purple Martin. 



Common Tern. 



Green Heron. 



Hummingbird. 



Kingbird. 



Crested Flycatcher. 



Wood Pewee. 



Lincoln's Sparrow. 



Wilson's Snipe. 

 Blue-headed \'ireo. 



Herring Gull. 



Green-winged Teal. 



Blue-winged Teal. 



American Coot. 



Junco. 



White-throated Sparrow. 



White-crowned Sparrow. 



October Bird-Life.— 



