. Bird lore . y the last week inJuly, when there is, apparently, a movement of Ovenbirds, Water-Thrushes,Black and White, Chestnut-sided, and Yellow Warblers, and Redstarts. Aboutthis time the Chats disappear. The cool spell which occurs about the middle 156 Bird - Lore of August brings on hosts of these species and starts the Magnolias, Parulas,Nashvilles, and Black-throated Green Warblers. September ushers in themore northern species, the Canadians, Black-throated Blues and Blackburn-ians, followed by the Blackpolls, Baybreasts, Myrtles, and Tennessees. Ingeneral, the first to migrate are th
. Bird lore . y the last week inJuly, when there is, apparently, a movement of Ovenbirds, Water-Thrushes,Black and White, Chestnut-sided, and Yellow Warblers, and Redstarts. Aboutthis time the Chats disappear. The cool spell which occurs about the middle 156 Bird - Lore of August brings on hosts of these species and starts the Magnolias, Parulas,Nashvilles, and Black-throated Green Warblers. September ushers in themore northern species, the Canadians, Black-throated Blues and Blackburn-ians, followed by the Blackpolls, Baybreasts, Myrtles, and Tennessees. Ingeneral, the first to migrate are the Transition species, the next the Cana-dian, and finally the Hudsonian. The Myrtle and Orange-crowned Warblersthat have not far to go, delay their leave-taking until October and occasion-ally even until November. With the disappearance of these, the Warblersare a memory until the first twitter of the Pine and the ringing notes of theLouisiana Water-Thrush in early April announce that spring is well under A SLIM MEALThe male Canadian Warbler is about to give a crane-fly to its young Notes from a Traveler in the TropicsIV. PERU By FRANK M. CHAPMAN With illustrations by Louis Agassiz Fuertes EXCEPT where occasional small, shallow, snow-fed rivers reach the seaand in the generally adjacent irrigated areas, the coastal region of Peruis almost devoid of vegetation. But this barrenness, this nakedness, asit may well be called, serves but to reveal the infinitely diverse beauties ofform, structure, and color of the earths surface far more clearly than if theywere cloaked by a forest. I yield to none in my love of trees; I know the charmof tree-covered hills and mountains, but their attractiveness is from withinrather than from without. One revels in this grandeur of trunk and grace oflimb, their vistas, their play of sunlight and shadow, the fertility to which theygive such noble expression, the life to which they give abode. But from ascenic point of view they have concealed th
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