68 SAXICOLID^ : STONE CHATS, ETC. 



example mentioned in my list has since been ascertained 

 to have come from the same country (see Brewer, 

 Pr. Bost. Soc, xvii, 1875, p. 450), where, I am inclined 

 to believe, the Stone Chat will ultimately prove to be 

 found regularly, and not so rarely as has been sup- 

 posed. Mr. Boardman's New England record remains 

 single. Mr. Lawrence's Long Island record is in 

 Ann. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist., viii, 1866, p. 282.— C] 



BLUE-BIRD. 

 SlALIA SIALIS (Z.) Hald. 



Chars. Male, in full plumage: Rich azure-blue, the throat, 

 breast and sides chestnut, the belly and under tail-coverts white 

 or bluish-white, the ends of the wing-quills dusky. Bill and feet 

 black. Female, and male in imperfect plumage : The blue of 

 the upper parts obscured by grayish-brown, or interrupted by 

 reddish-brown edging of the feathers ; the chestnut paler, the 

 whitish of the belly more extended. Newly-fledged young are 

 brown above, becoming blue on the rump, tail, and wings, the 

 back streaked with whitish lines, nearly all the under parts 

 speckled with white and brownish. A white ring around the 

 eye. Length, 6.50-7.00; extent, 12.00-13.00; wing, 3.75-4.00; 

 tail, 2.75-3.00 ; bill, 0.45 ; tarsus, 0.75. Specimens differ much 

 in size, and interminably in color during the progress toward the 

 perfect feathering. Albinotic individuals have been observed. 



The Blue-bird, famed for the beauty of its color and 

 the dreamy delight of its voluptuous warbling, is 

 chiefly a summer resident in New England, excepting, 

 probably, the northern portions of Maine. While not 

 strictly limited in its northward range by the Alleghan- 

 ian Fauna, it is nevertheless much more abundant and 

 more generally dispersed in that area and in the Caro- 



