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the throat and the base of the bill. Length, eight 

 and three-quarter inches. Habitat, Virginia and 

 the Carolinas. Occurs very rarely in Canada. 



Cyanospiza cyanca. The Indigo Bird. 



This beautiful bird is five and a-half inches 

 long. The color, bright ultra-marine blue ; wing 

 feathers tinged with dull bluish-brown. This 

 bird prefers the skirts of the forests. Its song 

 is sweet and interesting. Nests, in low bushes ; 

 eggs, six ; color, blue, with purple spots. It 

 arrives from the south about the twentieth of 

 May, and returns late in September. Feeds on 

 insects and berries. 



Pipilo erytkropthalmus. The Ground Robin, or 



Chewink. 



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This is a common visitor. It arrives in the 

 vicinity of Toronto about the twentieth of May ; 

 the males arriving about ten days before the 

 females. For two or three hours after sunrise, 

 the Chewink sits perched upon the top of a 

 small tree or bush, and sings with mellow sweet- 

 ness, which cannot fail to interest the hearer. 

 Nests, on the ground, beneath a tuft of grass ; 

 eggs, four in number, of- a flesh color, with dark 

 spots. Two broods, and sometimes three, are 

 raised in the season. They collect in flocks about 

 the last of October, and leave for the south. 

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