44 BIRDS OF P. E. ISLAND. 



Elliot River. At first he tried to hide his strong- 

 ly marked coat of black and white among the 

 growing grass, but 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- 

 ever. 



^altimcre ©rick. 



(Icterus galbula) 



This flashing beauty of bird -life is said to 

 have been seen at Cascumpeque, though we our- 

 selves have never observed it. 



^ustj) (irackl^. 



Scolecophagus ferrugiiieus is the awkward scien- 

 tific appendage to the name of this rather common 

 bird, that in early spring comes whistling so shrilly 

 and yet so sweetly along the borders 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 unbowed sedges. 



