. The Canadian bird book [microform] : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds : also several hundred photographs of their nest and eggs. Oiseaux; Birds. tHE BIRD BOOK 766. Blukbihu. Sialia tiali$ tudit. »rteni Untted StateH. breeding from the Quit to 80Uth«m CMWla. Winters In the southern half of the United States. These famllUr birds build In cavities In trees, uanallr below 20 feet from the ground, crev- ices among ledges, bird boxes and In any suit able nook they may discover about building*. nroTldlng that English Sparrows do not molest them.
. The Canadian bird book [microform] : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds : also several hundred photographs of their nest and eggs. Oiseaux; Birds. tHE BIRD BOOK 766. Blukbihu. Sialia tiali$ tudit. »rteni Untted StateH. breeding from the Quit to 80Uth«m CMWla. Winters In the southern half of the United States. These famllUr birds build In cavities In trees, uanallr below 20 feet from the ground, crev- ices among ledges, bird boxes and In any suit able nook they may discover about building*. nroTldlng that English Sparrows do not molest them. They raise several a:; "" broods a year, commencing In Jk^ April when they Uy from ^â |^,2^__ three to six pale blnlsh white ^^HHMU^ eggs (rarely pore white); ^^^^^r stee .80 x .60. The cavities ^^^^ of their nesting sites are lined BiuiRh white y,^^^ grasses and feathers nanally, although I have found the eggs on the unllned bottom of cavities In trees. 766h. Azure BLUEBinn. SitUia $ialiM fulva. Range.âThis pale variety is found in south- ern Arizona and southward. Its nextlng habits are the same and the egg« are Indistinguishable from the Kliiebird 767. Wbstehn Bti'KBiiin. Sialia mexicana occidentalii. Range.âPacific coast from Lower California to British Columbia. The Western Bluebird is as comwon and familUr in ita range as the common Bluebird is in the east. It nests in similar locations and its e«tgB are scarcely distinguishable, although averaging a trifle darker in shade; sice .80 x .60. 767«. Chkhtnit-ba* Ken Sialia mexivaHa Imirdi. Range.âRocky Mountain region from Mexico to Wyoming. The nesting habits or eggs of this brighter colored bird do not differ from those of the last species. 767b. San Pedho BM-rBlRit. Sialia mrxicana anahela. Range.âSan Pedro Martir Mountains In Lower California. The eggs of this variety will not in all probability be any different from those of the preceding Bluebirds. 768. Mountain Blikbihd.
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