. The oist . , forty-five and fifty, and still they con-gregated up there in the vastness ofsky spaces. The call of the leader,which seemed to say Come on, comeon! had died away, and only tinyblack specks were visible to the eye,and soon these vanished in a mist ofgrey rain clouds. But while I stoodgazing, a few stragglers arose, slowlyflying, chirping plaintively, Waitfor me-e-e! The stillness that followed was op-pressive. I was almost breathless, asI became conscious that I had seenwhat I probably would never seeagain. The fluttering of many wings,the din of chirps and calls was gone,only a
. The oist . , forty-five and fifty, and still they con-gregated up there in the vastness ofsky spaces. The call of the leader,which seemed to say Come on, comeon! had died away, and only tinyblack specks were visible to the eye,and soon these vanished in a mist ofgrey rain clouds. But while I stoodgazing, a few stragglers arose, slowlyflying, chirping plaintively, Waitfor me-e-e! The stillness that followed was op-pressive. I was almost breathless, asI became conscious that I had seenwhat I probably would never seeagain. The fluttering of many wings,the din of chirps and calls was gone,only a memory remained. Then alittle black cricket chirped out frombeside a grey stone, and a lonelyWoodpecker stirred in the old apple-tree, just to let me know that some-thing was alive and breathing in thatawful silence. Our took a bit of heavens blue. Set with the grey of morning then He touched your breast ahue He found amid His autumnal W. Chace,Lawrenceville, 166 THE OOLOGIST LATE SWALLOWS AT PHILADEL-PHIA According to my migration records,covering 25 years, the average timethe Barn Swallow leaves Philadelphiais September 16th, subsequent recordsare few. The latest dates I haveseen the Barn Swallow in this regionare: October 10, 1917, Aramingo,Philadelphia, one young bird of theyear; October 3, 1915, PensaukenCreek, N. J., one bird. This localityis about six miles east of Philadel-phia, October 2, 1906, Richmond, Phila-OOLOGIST—FIVE delphia. Pa., one bird. However, onOctober 10, of the latter year at thislocality my brother George saw fourBarn Swallows. On September 30, 1907, at abovelocality I saw a flock of 30 Barn Swal-lows, but as a rule my several recordslater than September 20, have been ofindividual birds. The Bank Swallow departs fromPhiladelphia, on the average aboutthe same time as the Barn Swallow-I have but one October (3, 1915)record, that of a bird seen at WestPalmyra, N. J., on the Delaware River,about six mil
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