. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada, based on Nuttall's Manual . among the blossoms of the maple and elmin company with the preceding species, and appear more vola-tile and actively engaged in seizing small flies on the wing, andcollecting minute, lurking caterpillars from the opening the 2ist of May, 1835, I observed this species feedingits full-fledged young in a tall pine-tree on the banks of theColumbia River. The range of this species is now set down as Eastern NorthAmerica west to the Rockies, breeding from the northern borderof the United St
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada, based on Nuttall's Manual . among the blossoms of the maple and elmin company with the preceding species, and appear more vola-tile and actively engaged in seizing small flies on the wing, andcollecting minute, lurking caterpillars from the opening the 2ist of May, 1835, I observed this species feedingits full-fledged young in a tall pine-tree on the banks of theColumbia River. The range of this species is now set down as Eastern NorthAmerica west to the Rockies, breeding from the northern borderof the United States northward, wintering in the Eastern Statesand south to Gautemala. Until quite recently it was supposed tobe a migrant through Massachusetts, wintering in small numbers,but has been discovered breeding in both Berkshire and Worcestercounties. Nests have been taken also on the Catskills. It is aresident of the settled portion of Canada, though not common westof the Georgian Bay, and rarely breeding south of latitude 45°. The song is a rather simple twittered warble, shrill and BLUEBIRD. SlALIA SIALIS. Char. Male : above, azure blue, duller on cheeks; throat, breast, andsides reddish brown; belly and under tail-coverts white; shafts of feathersin wing and tail, black. Female : duller, blue of back mixed with grayishbrown; breast with less of rufous tint. Length about 6){ inches. JVesf. In a hollow tree, deserted Woodpeckers hole, or other excava-tion or crevice, or in a bird-box ; meagrely lined with grass or feathers. ^^i^ 4-6 ; usually pale blue, sometimes almost white ; X These well-known and familiar favorites inhabit almost thewhole eastern side of the continent of America, from the 48thparallel to the very line of the tropics. Some appear to mi-grate in winter to the Bermudas and Bahama islands, thoughmost of those which pass the summer in the North only retireto the Southern States or the tableland of Mexico. In SouthCarolina and Georgia they
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