. Bird lore . est shore of Lake Itasca, mingling its dashing melody with thewonderful, serene anthems floating down from the Hermit Thrushes perchedaloft in the great pines. Ernest Thompson Seton (Birds of Manitoba, 1890)states that this lark-like song may be heard at almost any time of the nightin the grove where a pair of these birds have settled for the love season; and Bolles relates: When the Whip-poor-will is clucking,When the bats unfurl their canvas,When dim twilight rules the forest,Soaring towards the high stars above the highest tree-top,Singing goes the sweet Accentor.

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. Bird lore . est shore of Lake Itasca, mingling its dashing melody with thewonderful, serene anthems floating down from the Hermit Thrushes perchedaloft in the great pines. Ernest Thompson Seton (Birds of Manitoba, 1890)states that this lark-like song may be heard at almost any time of the nightin the grove where a pair of these birds have settled for the love season; and Bolles relates: When the Whip-poor-will is clucking,When the bats unfurl their canvas,When dim twilight rules the forest,Soaring towards the high stars above the highest tree-top,Singing goes the sweet Accentor. The middle of July closes the song-season, and thereafter the Oven-bird israrely observed. Most of the Oven-birds leave during the month of September, and by theclose of that month only stray individuals, like the one mentioned at thebeginning of this article, are to be encountered. They are then wending theirway leisurely to their winter abode in Mexico, Central America, the WestIndies, and southern

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