. Bird-lore . rve the relation between and the natureof a migrant birds food and the date of its departure. Note especially whether anjbirds store food. Does It follow that the same indiviilual which stores food will remainto devour it later in the year ? Song.— What species sing at this season? Are the individuals heard singingbelieved to be adults or birds reared the preceding summer ? What birds have call-notes largelv restricted to this season ? What are the probable reasons for such restriction ? SUGGESTIONS FOR THE SEASONS READING Thoreau: Autinnn, Autumnal Lints in Excursions. Burroughs
. Bird-lore . rve the relation between and the natureof a migrant birds food and the date of its departure. Note especially whether anjbirds store food. Does It follow that the same indiviilual which stores food will remainto devour it later in the year ? Song.— What species sing at this season? Are the individuals heard singingbelieved to be adults or birds reared the preceding summer ? What birds have call-notes largelv restricted to this season ? What are the probable reasons for such restriction ? SUGGESTIONS FOR THE SEASONS READING Thoreau: Autinnn, Autumnal Lints in Excursions. Burroughs: AutumnTides and An October Abroad in Winter Sunshine. Torrey: A NovemberChronicle in A Ramblers Lease. Flagg: October and November in A YearWith the Birds. Bolles: At the North of Bearcamp Water. Wright: The Loomof Autumn in The Friendship of Nature. Crocket: October and November inA Yearbook of Kentucky Woods and Fields. Ingersoll: Natures Calendar. Park-hurst: The Birds Calendar. The June Bird Census 171. What Bird Is This? Field Description. — Length. in. Crown dark brown, a grayish line through its center, a burfy streak overthe eye: back streaked with black, whitish and brownish: tail-feathers pointed: throat whitish; breas; and sidesbuffy; abdomen white. Note.—Each number of Birij-Lore will contain a photograph, from specimens inthe American Museum of Natural History, of some widely-distributed, but, in tiieeastern United States, at least, comparatively little-known bird, the name of which willbe withheld until the succeeding number of the magazine, it being believed that thismethod of arousing the students curiosity will result in impressing the birds characterson his mind far more strongly than if its name were given with its picture. The species figured in August is the female Black-throated Blue Warbler, a fallspecimen with the white spot at the base of the primaries not visible beyond the Warbler |)luiTiages are more dithcult to identify. The
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