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mate. Both, however, are blue above and rusty red under- 

 neath. "When Nature made the Bhiebird," says Bur- 

 roughs, in " Wake Hobin," " she wished to propitiate 

 both the earth aaid sky, so she gave him the color of 



Bluebird. 



one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast, 

 and ordained that his appearance in the spring should 

 denote that the strife and war between these two ele- 

 ments was at an end. He is the peace harbinger ; in 

 him the celestial and terrestial strike hands and are fast 

 friends." 



