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BiHDS OI' XolJTlI CaKOLIXA 



se\cii and nine feet high in unnamed saplings. According to Cairns, the eggs are 

 laid in 'Slay. They are greenish l)lue in ground-color, more or less spottetl over the 

 entire surface with blotches of reddish brown. Size about the same as those of the 

 Cardinal. 



Flti. 202. UoSK-BKEASTED GROSBEAK. 



Outside of the mountains tliis bird is only recorded from Ciuqicl Hill and Raleigh, 

 where it has l)een oljserved in the spring Ijctween April 28 and May S, and at 

 ( luilford College, where Pearson saw five on I\Iay 9, 1897. 



Like the Cardinal, it is a pleasing singer; and it is one of tlie few bird< tliat care 

 for potato-bugs as an article of diet. 



Genus Guiraca (Swains.) 

 250. Guiraca cserulea cserulea [Linn.). Blue Grosbe.\k. 



Dcxcriiituin. — Mali-, Ijluc with cliistnul winK-hurs; foin.ilo, yellowish brown with wliitish 

 wing-bars. Immature mules arc only partly blue, the tint in that ca.se being restricted to the 

 head and forepart of the body, t'cmales are occasionally somewhat blue. Extreme measure- 

 ments of 7r-, Raleigh specimens: L., 6.2.5-7.25; W., 3.00^3.05; T., 2.38-2.90. 



Range. — Southeastern United States in summer; wintering south of our border. 



Mange in Nurlli Carolina. — .\ sununer resident in the central and eastern districts. 



Fio. 203. Blue Grosbe.^k. 



The Blue Grosbeak is a summer visitor in that portion of the State lying east 

 of the mountain ranges, arriving from the south late in April or early in May, and 

 leaving again late in September. 



