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upright and rather stiff attitude. It is then easily approached. I have 
followed it in its migrations into Pennsylvania, New York, and other 
Eastern States, through the British Provinces of New Brunswick and 
Nova Scotia, as far as Newfoundland, where many breed, but I saw 
none in Labrador. _ It is never seen in the maritime parts of Georgia, 
or those of the Carolinas, but some have been procured in the moun- 
tainous portions of those States. 1 have found them rather plentiful 
in the early part of May, along the steep banks of the Schuylkill river, 
twenty or thirty miles from Philadelphia, and observed, that at that 
season they fed mostly on the buds of the trees, their tender blossoms, 
and upon insects, which they catch on wing, making short sallies for the 
purpose. I saw several in the Great Pine Forest of Pennsylvania ; 
but they were more abundant in New York, especially along the banks 
of the beautiful river called the Mohawk. They are equally abundant 
along the shores of Lakes Ontario and Erie, although I believe that the 
greater number go as far as New Brunswick to breed. While on an 
excursion to the islands at the entrance of the Bay of Fundy, in the 
beginning of May, my son shot several which were in full song. These 
islands are about thirty miles distant from the main land.” 
‘The most western place in which I found the nest of this species 
was within a few miles of Cincinnati on the Ohio. | It was placed in 
the upright forks of a low bush, and differed so much in its composition 
from those which I have seen in the Eastern States, that it greatly 
resembled the nest of the Blue Grosbeak already described. The 
young, three in number, were ready to fly. The parents fed them on 
the soft grains of wheat which they procured in a neighboring field, and 
often searched for insects in the crannies of the bark of trees, on which 
they alighted sidewise, in the manner of Sparrows. “This was in the 
