The June Bird Census 



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What Bird Is This? 



Field Descriptio/i. — 'Length, ;.;o in. Crown dark brown, a grayish line through its center, a buffy strealt over 

 the eye: back streaked with black, whitish and brownish; tail-feathers pointed; throat whitish; breast and sides 

 buffy; abdomen white. 



Note. — Each number of Bird-Lore will contain a photograph, from specimens in 

 the American Museum of Natural History, of some widely-distributed, but, in the 

 eastern United States, at least, comparatively little-known bird, the name of which will 

 be withheld until the succeeding number of the magazine, it being believed that this 

 method of arousing the student's curiosity will result in impressing the bird's characters 

 on his mind far more strongly than if its name were given with its picture. 



The species figured in August is the female Black-throated Blue Warbler, a fall 

 specimen with the white spot at the base of the primaries not visible beyond the coverts. 

 Few Warbler plumages are more difficult to identify. 



The June Bird Census 



While we have received a number of responses to the suggestion of 

 a June bird census, very few of the lists sent are based upon the detailed 

 observation required to make them of value in this connection. A mere 

 enumeration of the species seen even when accompanied by the statements 

 of "Common," "Abundant," etc., does not aid us in learning with com- 

 parative exactness the number of individual birds occupying a given area. 



