BY THE WAYSIDE 
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very by dispersed light in the evening 
mist. We strain our ears to distin¬ 
guish the notes; killdeer and bobolink 
unmistakably announce themselves, 
but of the rest we get out little infor¬ 
mation. 
September, too, is the month in 
which the majority of our summer 
residents begin to migrate. One by 
one the species disappear. With them 
kinglets, the white-throated sparrows, 
the ducks and geese come and go until 
at the end of October only a few un¬ 
usually daring song sparrows that still 
hide in the thickets are all that re¬ 
main. And by the end of November, 
the last of the ducks have been driven 
oft' from ice bound lakes, and the fall 
migration may be said to have ceased. 
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with its loud querulous note; and the 
twittering blackbirds, flying in sable 
clouds; and the golden-winged wood¬ 
pecker, with his crimson crest, his 
broad black gorget, and splendid 
plumage; and the cedar-bird, with its 
red-tipt wings and vellow-tipt tail and 
its little monteiro cap of feathers; and 
the blue jay, that noisy coxcomb, in 
his gay light-blue coat and white un¬ 
der clothes, screaming and chattering, 
bobbing and nodding and bowing, and 
pretending to be on good terms with 
every songster of the grove.—From 
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” by 
Washington Irving. 
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A Fall Day 
It was, as I have said, a fine autum¬ 
nal day, the sky was clear and serene, 
and Nature wore that rich and golden 
livery which we always associate with 
the idea of abundance. The forests 
had put on their sober brown and yel¬ 
low, while some trees of the tenderer 
kind had been nipped by the frosts 
into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, 
and scarlet. Streaming files of wild 
ducks began to make their appearance 
high in the air; the bark of the squir¬ 
rel might be heard from the groves of 
beech and hickory nuts, and the pen¬ 
sive whistle of the quail at intervals 
from the neighboring stubble-field. 
The small birds were taking their 
farewell banquets. In the fulness of 
their revelry they fluttered, chirping 
and frolicking, from bush to bush and 
tree to tree, capricious from the very 
profusion and variety around them. 
There was the honest cock robin, the 
favorite game of stripling sportsmen, 
The Hawaiian Islands Reservation 
The Hawaiian Islands Reservation is 
a group of small islands and shoal ly¬ 
ing between 160 and 180° west longi¬ 
tude and between 23 and 29° north 
latitude. The reservation was made 
by President Roosevelt in February, 
1909, by whose order the hunting, 
trapping, or wilful molestation of any 
birds thereon is unlawful. Lavsan is 
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the largest of the islets of this group 
and exhibits many unique character¬ 
istics. 
In the first place it is the nesting 
site of thousands of waterfowl, chief 
among which is the Laysan Albatross 
(See plate, page 6). The albatrosses as 
a family are noted fliers and show re¬ 
markable powers of soaring. The Lay¬ 
san Albatross, not behind its relatives 
in grace of flight and form, executes 
a dance as well. It is, therefore, a 
very fortunate circumstance for mani¬ 
kin d that a rookery has been set aside 
where these beautiful creatures may 
have a chance to nest and rear their 
young undisturbed, and it is well that 
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