Pena asUrD GeBbrOuNe (BUG LEVIN g 
Mt. Carmel, Wabash County, Ill, he spent his entire boyhood in the 
sion of the Wabash Valley and Ohio River Valley, never once travelling 
st of the Mississippi River before 1867 (Harris, 1928). Thus the sketch, 
being dated 1858 and labeled as a young specimen “just able to fly,” 
ist signify a field encounter east of the Mississippi between Ridgway, 
ed eight, and an offspring of recent-nesting birds. 
One difficulty with this line of thought is that the bird in the Ridgway 
etch is surely not a young one “just able to fly.”’ Its wing and tail feathers 
> much too long, as shown by comparing them to those of the young bird 
ystrated by Richard P. Grossenheider. The latter work portrays pre- 
ely a fledgling scissor-tail just out of the nest and capable of flight. 
