June 6—Early summer (Chinese "sprouting seeds") bring many little problems of bird-life, problems accentuated by the thick foliage which makes the accurate observation of small birds very difficult. Take the case of the Tricolor and Narcissus Flycatchers: the former I know mainly as a migrant, yet I am sure that some of them stay to nest, and so have classed him as a Summer Visitor: the latter leaves us for the colder North quite early....but the only difference, easily recognized, is that Tricolor has white eyebrows while Narcissus has yellow ones...but who am I to argue about the colour of an eyebrow amidst our verdant trees? Perhaps I am getting old! Then I am told about a Canton Robin seen in St. John's compound:. this bird has no business here anyway. but is described to me as being of
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