238 THE STORY OF THE BIRDS. 
Later I have noted many other individuals in my 
yard, and have learned to know their plumage mark- 
ings and their flight even. 
The window pane has shown me other birds this 
way—a rare warbler now and then—and others still 
that my look outside would not detect. The only 
male humming bird I ever saw on my place was try- 


Black-throated blue warbler. (Reduced.) 
ing to come in at my window pane, but when I arose 
to let him in he left. I wish that I could take to 
myself the compliment that he desired to visit me, 
but I fear he thought the reflection of his pretty self 
was a rival, and he wished to fight it. Female hum- 
mers come often, but males are strikingly absent. 
