THE INDIGO BIRD. 



** Welcome tidings thou dost bring, 

 Little harbinger of spring." 



The Indigo Bird is one of America's sweet-voiced 

 warblers, a native of our own sunny South, visiting 

 the Northern States when warm weather has fairly 

 established itself/ His color is a beautiful shade of 

 indigo blue, and size the same as the canaiy. His 

 song, though short, is quite agreeable, and by many 

 considered very sweet. He will become very tame, 

 and live many years in confinement. If fed upon 

 nothing but canary, millet, and rape seed, with occa- /„ 

 sionally a little green stuff, with the addition of a 

 bath daily, he will keep in excellent condition and 

 song. 



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