. A popular handbook of the birds of the United States and Canada . Pennsylvania; atthis time they dart 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 21 St 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, breeding from the northern border of the United Statesnorthward a
. A popular handbook of the birds of the United States and Canada . Pennsylvania; atthis time they dart 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 21 St 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, breeding from the northern border of the United Statesnorthward and southward along the Rockies and the Alleghanies;wintering south to Guatemala. Until quite recently it was sup-posed to be a migrant through Massachusetts, wintering in smallnumbers, but has been discovered breeding in both Berkshire andWorcester counties. It is a resident of the settled portion ofCanada, though not common west of the Georgian Bay, and rarelybreeding south of latitude 45°. The song is a rather simple twittered warble, shrill and BLUEBIRD. SlALLA. 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. Nest. In a hollow tree, deserted Woodpeckers 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-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 were abundant in January and Fe
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