. Bird guide . BLUE GROSBEAK. 5J7. Cluiraca cariilcd. 7 inches. Male, deep blue with chestnut slioulders; female,grayish brown above and grayish white below. Open woods, small groves and roadsides are the lo-cations in which these birds will be apt to be some places they are fairly common, but to nowherethose of abundant. Their habits are very simithe Rose-breasted Grosbeak. Song.—A rapid varied warble, similar to but louderand stronger than that of the Indigo Bunting. Nest.—Of twigs, weeds and grasses, lined with finerooth^ts: placed in thickets, bushes or low trees: fouror live plai
. Bird guide . BLUE GROSBEAK. 5J7. Cluiraca cariilcd. 7 inches. Male, deep blue with chestnut slioulders; female,grayish brown above and grayish white below. Open woods, small groves and roadsides are the lo-cations in which these birds will be apt to be some places they are fairly common, but to nowherethose of abundant. Their habits are very simithe Rose-breasted Grosbeak. Song.—A rapid varied warble, similar to but louderand stronger than that of the Indigo Bunting. Nest.—Of twigs, weeds and grasses, lined with finerooth^ts: placed in thickets, bushes or low trees: fouror live plain bluish-white eggs (. x .62). Range.—Eastern U. breeding from the Gulf toMaryland and Illinois; winters south of U. S. Sub-species.—597a. Western Blue Grosbeak (la-zula). INfale of a brighter shade of blue than the east-ern : found from the Mississippi to the Pacific, breedingnortli to Kansas. Colorado and northern California. INDIGO BUNTING. 598. Passeriua cy(nicn. o^-i inches. Male, indigo blu
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