Identifier: birdlifeguide00chap (find matches)
Title: Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946
Subjects: Birds -- United States
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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k and white and buff will be ex-changed for the sparrowlike Reedbird dress, and in placeof the merry song he will utter only a metallic tinl. Thisnote is characteristic of the season. Day and night wehear it from birds high in the air as they hasten to theirrendezvous in the marshes, July 1, Tree Swallows, who nest rarely if at all nearNew York city, appear and establish their headquartersin the Hackensack meadows—a first step on the migra-tory journey. July is a month for wanderers. The nest-ing season of most one-brooded birds is over; they arenot yet ready to migrate, and pass the time roving aboutthe country with their families. In August birds are molting and moping. Thecareful observer will find that a few Warblers and Fly-catchers have returned from the north and are passingsouthward, but, as a rule, August is a month to testthe patience of the most enthusiastic bird student. Latein the month migrants become more numerous, but be-tween the flights or waves there are days when
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Plate XV. Page 106. MARSH HAWK.Length, 20-00 inches. Adtdt male, upper parts gray; under parts white withrusty spots ; upper tail-coverts white. Adult female and young, upperparts black and rich rusty ; under parts rich rusty and black ; upper tail-coverts white. TIMES OF MIGRATION. 53 one may tramp the woods for miles without seeing adozen birds. September is the month of Warblers. They come inmyriads during the latter half of the month, and onfavorable nights we may sometimes hear their fine-voicedtseeps as they fly by overhead. About the 25th of themonth our winter residents, the Junco, AVinter Wren,Golden Kinglet, and Brown Creeper, will arrive. The summer residents are now rapidly leaving us.In a general way it may be said that the last birds toarrive in the spring are the first to leave in the fall,while the earliest spring migrants remain the longest. October and November are the months of Sparrows.They rise in loose flocks from every stubble or weedfield, and seek shelter in t

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