That took the longing for young kingfisher all out of Cheokhes.

And there, twenty feet above the lake, a young kingfisher-oneof Koskomenos' frowzy-headed ,wild-eyed-youngsters-waswhirlingwildly at the end of my line.

I once saw six young kingfishers sitting side by side on a dead branch, close together, evidently just out of the nest.