120 AT THE NORTH OF BEARCAMF WATER. 
adee which gives character and direction to the 
body. The guided flock of easy-going warblers 
and vireos, nuthatches and kinglets, drift on, 
feeding and frolicking, heedless of what it 
passes. * 
If the observer u squeaks,” or if an owl draws 
the attention of the passing birds, the chickadee 
comes to the front at once, with his sharp re¬ 
proving iterations, and his beady eyes snapping 
indignantly. Along with him come red-eyed 
and solitary vireos, nuthatches, golden-crested 
kinglets, black-throated blue warblers, Wilson’s 
blackcaps, young chestnut-sided warblers, look¬ 
ing puzzlingly unlike their parents. Black- 
burnians, with throats aflame; black-throated 
greens, rich in spring tints of yellow and ten¬ 
der green; black and white creepers, the tidiest 
of birds; the gay magnolias, redstarts, Cana¬ 
dians, and sober myrtle warblers. Sometimes 
a single flock contains nearly all of these cour¬ 
tiers of the woods, while others are composed 
almost entirely of a single species, as, for ex¬ 
ample, the black-throated greens, or the mag¬ 
nolias. 
In these same late August and early Septem¬ 
ber days the cherry and berry eaters gather 
together and travel in flocks. Robins by scores, 
sometimes by hundreds, combine with the cedar- 
birds and flickers and range over the country in 
