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What Bird Is This? Field 'Description. — Length. 5.50 in. Crown dark brown, a grayish line through its center, a burfy streak over the eye: back streaked with black, whitish and brownish: tail-feathers pointed: throat whitish ; breas; and sides buffy; abdomen white. Note. — Each number of Birij-Lore will contain a photograph, from specimens in the American Museum of Natural History, of some widely-distributed, but, in tiie 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 |)luiTiages are more dithcult to identify. The June Bird Census While- vc have reccivcnl a iiuinbcr of responses to the siititiestion of a June biril census, very few of the h'sts si-nt are based upon the detailed observation recjuired to make them of value in this connection. A mere enumeration of the species seen even when accompanied b- the statements of "Common," "Abundant," etc., does not aitl us in learnifiL: with com - jiarative exactness the number of itidiidual birds occupiniz a L!;ii'n area.