Birds of the Boston Public Garden - a study in migration (1909) (14751393615)

Identifier: birdsofbostonpub09wrig (find matches)
Title: Birds of the Boston Public Garden : a study in migration
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, Horace Winslow Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co. Cambridge (Mass.) : Riverside Press
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library



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he could usually day by daybe found there. If he wandered to anothersection, he did not fail to return againsoon to his wonted area. He was not shyduring his stay and constantly affordedfine opportunities for careful observationof his markings. His great activity ofmovement presented the only difficulty ofremaining near him. He showed a prefer-ence for the trees which were as yet morethinly foliaged, the elms, the cottonwoods,and the willows, rather than for the maples,the horse-chestnuts, and the hawthorns,and was often in the lower branches. Hewas once seen on the turf at the border of abed of yellow tulips. On another occasion in the early morn-ing, with desire for a bath he dropped downupon the granite curbing of a basin inclos-ing a small fountain and tried to reach thewater, but it proved to be too far below thestone edging to permit him to make use ofit. So presently, perceiving that he couldnot get his bath there, he flew to the heavilydew-laden grass and with shakings of the
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CAPE MAY WARBLER 151 wings succeeded in throwing the dewdropsover himself and obtaining the refresh-ment he sought. Then well wetted, he roseinto a double-flowered peach tree and inhappiness finished his morning toilet. Itseemed a pity that there was but one ob-server of this dainty proceeding, but so itwas. Upon other days and at other timesthere were many interested observers, whoavailed of the rare opportunity of becom-ing acquainted with a full-plumaged CapeMay Warbler often voicing himself in song. A second record of the species was of afemale bird seen on May 26, 1905, and notremaining to a second day. In 1908 a third Cape May Warbler cameto the Garden on May 16, a female bird,and was seen by a group of interested ob-servers after I had discovered its presence.This bird moved through the Garden withexceeding restlessness and rapidity. It wasfirst seen in trees of low growth near theEverett statue, from which it quickly movedinto the large white willow at the northwestcorner of t