. How to study birds; a practical guide for amateur bird-lovers and camera-hunters . Oven-Bird leaving nest. —pp. 103-Jf. Mrs. Bob-White leaving nest. METHOD AND EQUIPMENT 27, a birds-eye view I should have known it couldnot have Been anything else than a titmouse or nut-hatch, unless possibly a warbler. Here is anothercase when, after taking the birds-eye view, an iden-tification was comparatively easy. Along a roadside,in some choke-cherry shrubbery I saw a bird about thesize of a bluebird, with a rather sharp bill and of ageneral olive and yellowish hue with a black patch onthe throat. I kn
. How to study birds; a practical guide for amateur bird-lovers and camera-hunters . Oven-Bird leaving nest. —pp. 103-Jf. Mrs. Bob-White leaving nest. METHOD AND EQUIPMENT 27, a birds-eye view I should have known it couldnot have Been anything else than a titmouse or nut-hatch, unless possibly a warbler. Here is anothercase when, after taking the birds-eye view, an iden-tification was comparatively easy. Along a roadside,in some choke-cherry shrubbery I saw a bird about thesize of a bluebird, with a rather sharp bill and of ageneral olive and yellowish hue with a black patch onthe throat. I knew at once it must be some sort of anoriole. It was not the Baltimore, and the orchardoriole was the only other kind known to occur inNew England. But I had never seen a female or-chard oriole with a black throat. So, what could itbe but some rare tropical species which had strayedup there! An excited looking up of the orchardoriole showed that this was the plumage of the youngmale in the second year. But for my having in mindthe general characteristics of the oriole group, itwould have been quite a problem to trace
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