SUMMER GROUP BLUE OR RED LIS> 5 I 



yellowish ; below, rich buff, unstreaked ; abdomen, whit- 

 ish. 



Nest, on ground, in open land ; eggs, June ist, 4-5, pure white, 

 spotted ; frequents open sandy fields. 



BLUE OR RED LIST. 

 Nos. 107-118 : Showing neither Black nor Yellow. 



107. BELTED KINGFISHER. 



Ashy-blue Blue, white. 



I2>^. Long, thin crest, a little darker; wings and tail, 

 dark, white-spotted ; below, white on throat and extend- 

 ing around neck, but not meeting on hind-neck ; broad 

 breast-band and sides, ashy-blue ; abdomen, white ; $ 

 has abdomen-band and sides chestnut. 



Nest, a deep horizontal hole in sand-bank, enlarged at inner end, 

 lined with a few fish-bones ; eggs, June ist, 6-8, pure white ; always 

 near water ; has peculiar rattling notes. 



107a. PURPLE MARTIN. 



Lustrous steel-blue. 

 7. See 33. 



lOS. BLUEBIRD. 



Lustrous-blue Chestnut, white. 



6X-7' Throat, breast, and sides, chestnut ; abdomen, 

 white. 



Nest, of various fine materials, in natural or artificial hole in tree, 

 post, etc. ; eggs, May ist, 4-6, light blue ; earliest herald of spring ; 

 permanent in N. J. 



109. BARN SWALLOW. 



S teel-blue Chestnut. 



6-7. Forehead, chestnut ; tail, deeply forked, white-spot- 

 ted ; below, various shades of chestnut, deepest on breast ; 



