PART II. 



BLUE-BIRDS. Sialice. 



CHAPTER I. 



BLUE-BIRD. Sialia Wilsonii. 



THIS beautiful and favourite, though 

 rather mournful voiced songster, is an- 

 other of the many interesting natives of 

 our own sunny land. To great beauty of 

 plumage and delightful tone of song, he 

 adds a sociability and confidence of man- 

 ner which at once endears him to the 

 hearts of every one. He may be called a 

 bird of passage, though he only departs 

 from our homesteads when the severity of 

 winter comes on, and even then in its 

 midst, his sweet notes are heard from 

 some lonely leafless tree, or high in air, 

 a sweet harbinger of sunny days to come. 



