16 Lirds of Canada. 
best known and most beautiful summer visitors. 
It is twelve inches long; the wing six inches. 
The top of the head, and the upper part of the 
neck, bluish-ash ; a red crescent on the nape; 
the other upper parts, olive-brown, with trans- 
verse bands of black; the lower parts, yellowish- 
white, tinged with brownish, and ornamented 
with circular black spots, and with a black cres- 
cent on the breast ; the shafts and under surfaces 
of the wings are gamboge yellow. This elegant 
bird arrives in Canada from the south about the 
twentieth of April, and returns late in the fall. 
Nests, in a hollow tree; eggs, six, pure white. 
Feeds upon insects, berries, and grains. 
