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much larger than a Wren, and has a 

 very short tail. Like most of its family, 

 it is streaked with brown and black. 



i 

 INDIGO BUNTING 



If any two birds ever represented 

 colleges I think they would be the In- 

 digo Bunting (Plate 2, p. 23) and the 

 Orange Weaver. The male of the 

 former is clad in Yale Blue, inhabiting 

 Eastern North America, while the male 

 of the latter is an Orange bird with 

 black wings and tail, a color reproduc- 

 tion of the Princeton flag. This 

 Weaver, however, is an African species. 

 The females are differently colored. 



The Indigo Bunting is common in the 

 fields of the Somerset Hills, in summer, 

 but it winters far to the south of us. 

 The male bird is described above, but 

 the female is very different, being of a 

 smooth, unstreaked olive-brown color. 



