. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin . alf of the state, but giveno definite records of its capture. W. W. Cooke says: In its mi-gration it reaches southern Illinois and southern Nebraska. (BirdMigration Miss. Valley, 1888, p. 218.) Kumlien & Hollister state: A rare straggler in Kumlien captured a pair near Lake Koshkonong in June, was also taken at least once by Dr. Hoy and there was also aMilwaukee specimen, which seems to have entirely disappeared.(Birds of Wisconsin, 1903, p. 102.) Genus PASSERINA Passerina cyanea (Linn.). Indigo Bunting. Indigo Bird.
. The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin . alf of the state, but giveno definite records of its capture. W. W. Cooke says: In its mi-gration it reaches southern Illinois and southern Nebraska. (BirdMigration Miss. Valley, 1888, p. 218.) Kumlien & Hollister state: A rare straggler in Kumlien captured a pair near Lake Koshkonong in June, was also taken at least once by Dr. Hoy and there was also aMilwaukee specimen, which seems to have entirely disappeared.(Birds of Wisconsin, 1903, p. 102.) Genus PASSERINA Passerina cyanea (Linn.). Indigo Bunting. Indigo Bird. Distr.: Eastern United States, from Kansas and Nebraska east-ward, north to Minnesota, Ontario and Quebec, and south in winterto Cuba and Central America to Panama; breeds from the Gulfstates northward. Adult male: General plumage, blue; clear indigo-blue on head,throat and breast; lighter blue on back and with the blue of theflanks tinged with greenish; lores, black; wings and tail, blackish,more or less ed^ed with greenish 6i2 Field Museum of Natural History—-Zoology, Vol. IX. Adult female: Upper plumage, brown; under parts, grayishbrown, indistinctly streaked with darker brown; throat, brownishwhite or whitish. Immature male: At first similar to the female, but later mixedblue and brown; the under parts mixed with , ; wing, ; tail, ; bill, .38. A common summer resident in Illinois and Wisconsin, being es-pecially noticeable on account of the brilliant blue plumage of the male. It arrives from the south in May and re-mains until the latter part of Septemberand sometimes later. The song is varied and sweet but notloud. Alexander Wilson in describing it,writes: It mounts to the highest tops ofa large tree and chants for half an hour ata time. Its song is not one continuousstrain, but a repetition of short notes,commencing loud and rapid, and falling by almost imperceptiblegradations for six or eight seconds, till they seem hardly articulate,a
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