. The Canadian bird book [microform] : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds : also several hundred photographs of their nest and eggs. Oiseaux; Birds. THE BIRD BOOK. Ululsli wlilti 597. Blle Grosbeak. Guirava irrnilfu. Cnit- _ ed States, breeding from the Gulf north to Pennsylvania and Illinois, and casually to New England. Smaller than tlie last two species and deep blue, with wings and tail blackish, and the lesser coverts and tips of greater, chestnut. It is a fairly common spe- cies in the southerly parts of its range, nest- ing m
. The Canadian bird book [microform] : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds : also several hundred photographs of their nest and eggs. Oiseaux; Birds. THE BIRD BOOK. Ululsli wlilti 597. Blle Grosbeak. Guirava irrnilfu. Cnit- _ ed States, breeding from the Gulf north to Pennsylvania and Illinois, and casually to New England. Smaller than tlie last two species and deep blue, with wings and tail blackish, and the lesser coverts and tips of greater, chestnut. It is a fairly common spe- cies in the southerly parts of its range, nest- ing most frequently in low bushes or vines in thicltets; the nest is made of rootlets, weed stalks and grasses and sometimes leaves. The three or four eggs are bluish white, unmarked. Size .85 X .65. Data.—Chatham Co., Ga., June 10, 1898. .'98. Indioo Bunting, /'anserina ri/anea. ' Range.—United States, east of the Plains, breeding north to Manitoba and Nova Scotia; winters s )Uth of the United States. This handsome species is rich indigo on the head and neck, shading into blue or greenish blue on the upper and under parts. They are very abundant in some localities along road- sides, in thickets and open woods, where their song is frequently head, it b^>- ing a very sweet refrain te sembllng, somewhat, certatiii passages from that of the Goldfinch. They nest at low elevations in thickets or vines, building their home of grass and weeds, lined with fine grass or hair, it being quite a substantial structure. The eggs, which are lalH in June or July, are pale bluish white. Size .75 x . Pale bluish wliln ^ ^ .-,99. I, Bunting. Passerina amiriin. Range.—Western United States, breeding from Mexico to northern United States and the interior of British Columbia: east to Kansas. This handsome bird is of the size of vimmii. but is azure blue above and on the throat, the 366. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enh
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