BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER
Like other ladies, the little feathered brides have to bear their husbands’ names, however inappropriate. What injustice! Here an innocent creature with an olive-green back and yellowish breast has to go about all her days known as the black-throated blue warbler, just because that happens to describe the dress of her spouse!
—Florence A. Merriam, Birds Through an Opera-Glass (1890), p. 187
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