MIDSUMMER SONGSTERS. 89 



Swamp. In the sprout land, beyond the 

 red huckleberry, an indigo-bird, which 

 chirps about me as if it had a nest there. 

 This is a splendid and marked bird, high 

 colored as is the tanager, looking strange 

 in this latitude. Glowing indigo. Wilson 

 says it sings, not like most other birds, in 

 the morning and evening chiefly, but also 

 in the middle of the day. In this I no- 

 tice it is like the tanager, the other fiery- 

 plumaged bird. They seem to love the 

 heat. It probably had its nest in one of 

 these bushes." 



