44 BIRDS OF P. E. ISLAND. 



ILlliot River. At first he tried to hide his stronof- 

 ly marked coat of black and white -among the 

 growing grass, but faihng 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. 



|3altimore (!)i*iole. 



(Icterus gal bill a) 



This flashing beauty of bird -life is said to 

 ha\e been seen at Cascumpeque, though we our- 

 selves have never observed it. 



liustj) Ojrackle. 



Scolecop/iagiis fcrnigineiis is the awkward scien- 

 tific ap])endage to the name of this rather common 

 bird, that in early spring comes whistling so shrilly 

 and yet so sweetly along the l)orders of the glassy 

 l)onds. Blackbird is its common name, and who 

 does not remember a sunnner eve when the silvery 

 pond reflected the forms of the unbowed sedges, 



