Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . ns sexes, and afterwards in murdering them for tlie sake oftlieir blood, which lie used in liis diabolical incantations. Out ofthis fact, in itself probably lialf-mythical, the main feature of thetale of B. has probably grown. Laval was burnt alive in a fieldnear Nantes, in 1440, on account of souie state-crime against theDuke of Brittany. BLUE-BELL. See Hyacinth. BLUE BIRD, BLUE WARBLER, BLUE REDBREAST,or BLUE ROBIN {Sylvia dalis, or, according to the most recentornithological systems, .Brj/fAacffior itaiJa
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . ns sexes, and afterwards in murdering them for tlie sake oftlieir blood, which lie used in liis diabolical incantations. Out ofthis fact, in itself probably lialf-mythical, the main feature of thetale of B. has probably grown. Laval was burnt alive in a fieldnear Nantes, in 1440, on account of souie state-crime against theDuke of Brittany. BLUE-BELL. See Hyacinth. BLUE BIRD, BLUE WARBLER, BLUE REDBREAST,or BLUE ROBIN {Sylvia dalis, or, according to the most recentornithological systems, .Brj/fAacffior itaiJairiZsorti; seeSYLVlADjE),an American bird, which, from the confidence and familiarity^ itdisplays in approaching the liabitations of men, and from itsgeneral manners, is much the same sort of lavorite with all classesof people in tlie United States that tlie redbreast is in in the southern states, it is cliiefly known as a summerbird of passage, appearing early, however, as a harbinger of spring,and visiting again the box in the garden, or the hole in the old. Bine Bird (Sylvia sialis). apple-tree, the cradle of some generations of ancestors. FewAmerican farmers fail to provide a box for the B. nest. Insize, the B. B. rather exceeds the redbreast, which, liowever, itmuch resembles in general appearance. Its food is also upper parts of tlie B. B. are of a rich sky-blue color, thethroat and breast are reddish cliestnut, and the bell) female is duller in colors tlian tlie male. The B. five or six pale-blue eggs, and lias two or three broodsin the season. Its song is a soft agreeable warble. The male isremarkably attentive to his mate, and botli exliibit extraordinarycourage in driving away intruders from tlie vicinitj of their hen, with her brood, has Ijeen seen to flee from the attacks ofan enraged and pugnacious blue bird-—Ihe B. B. is known as aninhabitant of tlie Bermudas, Mexico, the West Indies, Guiana, andBrazil.—In
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