icteria

Updated: June 23, 2025

I first knew the chat if one may be said to know a creature so shy in a spot I have elsewhere described, a deserted park at the foot of Cheyenne Mountain. This was the Western form of Icteria, differing from the Eastern only in a greater length of tail, which several of our Rocky Mountain birds affect, for the purpose, apparently, of puzzling the ornithologist.

Olive Thorne Miller - A Bird-Lover in the West