. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada, based on Nuttall's Manual. Birds; Birds. SlALIA SIALIS. Char. Male : above, azure blue, duller on cheeks; throat, breast, and sides reddish brown; belly and under tail-coverts white; shafts of feathers in wing and tail, black. Female : duller, blue of back mixedwith grayish brown; breast with less of rufous tint. Length about 6% inches. IVest, In a hollow tree, deserted Woodpecker's hole, or other excava- tion or crevice, or in a bird-box ; meagrely lined with grass or feathers. Eggs. 4-6 ; usually pale blue, s
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada, based on Nuttall's Manual. Birds; Birds. SlALIA SIALIS. Char. Male : above, azure blue, duller on cheeks; throat, breast, and sides reddish brown; belly and under tail-coverts white; shafts of feathers in wing and tail, black. Female : duller, blue of back mixedwith grayish brown; breast with less of rufous tint. Length about 6% inches. IVest, In a hollow tree, deserted Woodpecker's hole, or other excava- tion or crevice, or in a bird-box ; meagrely lined with grass or feathers. Eggs. 4-6 ; usually pale blue, sometimes almost white ; X These well-knovyn and familiar favorites inhabit almost the whole eastern side of the continent of America, from the 48th parallel to the very line of the tropics. Some appear to mi- grate in winter to the Bermudas and Bahama islands, though most of those which pass the summer in the North only retire to the Southern States or the tableland of Mexico. In South Carolina and Georgia they were abundant in January and Feb- ruary, and even on the 12th and 28th of the former month, the weather being mild, a few of these wanderers warbled out their simple notes from the naked Umbs of the long-leaved pines. Sometimes they even pass the winter in Pennsylvania, or at least make their appearance with almost every relenting of the severity of the winter or warm gleam of thawing sunshine. From this circumstance of their roving about in quest of their scanty food, like the hard-pressed and hungry Robin Redbreast, who by degrees gains such courage from necessity as to enter the cottage for his allowed crumbs, it has, without Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859; Chamberlain, Montague, 1844-1924. Boston, Little, Brown
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