330 Trees, Stars, and Birds 



Finley & Bohlman 

 FIG. 206. Male lazuli bunting feeding its young. 



wires along country roads. As with some other bright- 

 colored birds, their color does not show unless they are 

 viewed in the proper light. When their song is once learned, 

 the birds will be noticed much more frequently than before. 



The rose-breasted grosbeak. Several larger species 

 of the sparrow family are called grosbeaks because of 

 their large beaks. The pine grosbeak and evening grosbeak 

 are Northern birds, and are seen occasionally in our 

 Northern states in winter. The rose-breasted grosbeak 

 spends the winter in the tropics and the summer in 

 Canada and the northern parts of the United States. 

 Its name would enable any one who has a good view of 

 it to recognize the male bird. It is mainly black and 

 white, with the breast rose-red. The female has no red 

 color or conspicuous black and white markings, but is 

 streaked with brown like sparrows of various kinds* 



The male and female of this species take turns in in- 

 cubating the eggs, the male frequently singing while 



