. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. I'AiNsoN. SijMa siiilis, Suzicola sialis, IJonap. i; the belly whitish.— !(1 with white; benenth a and tail bluish, orite inhiiliiis prob- to the viiy line of n winter to the Ber- ir those wlii''h itire to th<' Southern In South Carolina January and Febru- .fthe former month, leso wanderers war- naked limbs of the jven pass the winter leir appearnnce with ty of the winc^r or 445 wiirm gleam of thawintj sunshine. From this circum- 8tiiii''e of their roving about in quest of their s
. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. I'AiNsoN. SijMa siiilis, Suzicola sialis, IJonap. i; the belly whitish.— !(1 with white; benenth a and tail bluish, orite inhiiliiis prob- to the viiy line of n winter to the Ber- ir those wlii''h itire to th<' Southern In South Carolina January and Febru- .fthe former month, leso wanderers war- naked limbs of the jven pass the winter leir appearnnce with ty of the winc^r or 445 wiirm gleam of thawintj sunshine. From this circum- 8tiiii''e of their roving about in quest of their scanty food, like the hard-prcst^ied and hungry Robin Red-Breast, who by degrees gains such courage from necessity, as to en- ter the cottage for liis allowed crumbs ; it has without foundation been supposed that our Blue-Bird, in the in- tervals of his absence, passes the tedious and stormy time in a state of dormancy ; but it is more probable that ho flies to some slultered f;lado and warm and more ho.'ipitable situation, to glean his frugal fare from the berries of the cedar, or the wintry fruits which still remain ungather- ed in the swamps. Defended from the severity of the cold, he now also, in all probability, roosts in the liol- lowp of decayed trees, a situation wli ho generally chooses for the site of his nest. In the South, at this un- promising and gl( 'Tiy season, they are seen to feed on the glutinous ' 'rriesi-i the mistletoe, the green-briar, and the sumach. Content with their various fare, and little affect- ed by the extremes of heat and ci i'l, they breed and spend lie summer from Labrador to Natchez, if not to Mexico, where great elevntion produces the most i'mperate and mild of dim s They are also abundant at this season, to the west of the Mississippi, in the territories of the Misso'i I and Arkansas. In ,,o Tidd) and Northern States, the return of the Blm-Bird to Id ' mts round the barn and the or- chard I- haileu the first agreeable presage of return- i
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