Bird Notes, Part 1, v658
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(236) and may be black --which are commercially different xxxweikxxx technically dif- ferent, although loosely considered the same--with linseed oil, a yellow soap and some other ingredients not essential to be considered here. Carbon black of high quality is decidedly a blue-black . Lamp Black often has a brownish tinge, yet a carton of commercial Lamp (at least so labelled) Black which I used in painting a machine in my experimental shop, by mixing linseed oil and turpentine with it a couple of years ago yielded a color which I have just now compared with Ridgway's charts and which is his Dark Greenish Blue-Green (Plate XLVIII). A high grade is the Bone Black also has a bluish tinge, so that it easily possible that and in the birds' eyes green which I see in Ridgway's Brownish Olive is there. Added to this, blue is usually actually added to ordinary printer's ink in the process of manufacture. The source of the blacks used in the actual printing of Ridgway's charts is not clear. 1:45. One of the young birds was up at the oval lawn. The other two were in the glade and came for food. Greenie flew overhead and they crouched in defensive attitudes. Greenie came down to the ground about ten feet away and they turned an d faced him hostlily. They wandered away and he attacked them, but they stood their ground. Green is came to me very meekly for worms and then left. The young ones were more or less frozen when he was about, but thawed out when he left. One of them throws out my spatula just as Brownie does. 4:30 As Mr.Sampson and I sat in the glade earlier in the afternoon all three of the young thrashers were playing about us and two of them practiced their songs. About 4, after Mr. Sampson had left, an outcry arose from the Spotted Towhees, who have now brought some of their third brood into the glade, presumably to feed them more readily from the soft food dish which they are now using with the thrashers. Roughly the western half of the glade is covered with a dense growth of shrubs, and the western half of this again consists of an almost impenetrable mass of "sticky monkey" which has lodged and is now a twisted Biplana