Birds of Canada. 61 
Cyanospiza cyanea —The Indigo Bird. 
This beautiful bird is five and a-half inches 
long. The color, bright ultramarine-blue ; wing 
feathers tinged with: dull bluish-brown. This 
bird prefers the skirts of the forests. Its song 
is sweet and interesting. Nests, in low bushes ; 
eggs, six; color, blue, with purple spots. It 
arrives from the south about the twentieth of 
May, and returns late in September. Feeds on 
insects and berries. 
Pipilo erythropthalmus——TYhe Ground Robin, or 
Chewink. 
This is a common visitor. It arrives in the 
vicinity of Toronto about the twentieth of May; 
the males ariving about ten days before the 
females. For two or three hours after sunrise, 
the Chewink sits perched upon the top of a 
small tree or bush, and sings with mellow sweet- 
ness, which’ cannot fail to interest the hearer. 
Nests, on the ground beneath a tuft of grass; 
eggs, four in number, of a flesh color, with dark 
spots. Two broods, and sometimes three, are 
raised in the season. They collect in flocks about 
the last of October, and leave for the south. 
