44 BIRDS OF P. If. ISLAND.

Elliot River. At first he tried to hide his strong- ly tnark‘d coat of black and white among the growing grass, hut failing in this was away in his strong flight to the top of a poplar, then, without uttering a note, was gone from us for« even «WW fiatltimorr Qlt‘iolr.

, (filer/ts ga/lI/r/a)

This flashing beauty of l)ird»life is said to have been seen at Caseumpeque, though we our»

selves have never observed it.

flush) (Bratrlclt.

Sko/uap/lag/(s flrr/{gz'I/v/rx is the awkward seien~ tifit: appendage to the name of this rather common bird, that in early spring comes whistling so shrilly and yet so sweetly along the horde-rs of the glassy ponds. Blackbird is its common name, and who does not remember a summer eve when the silvery

pond reflected the forms of the unhowed sedges,