. BLUE, AKD INDIGO BUNTING. ^ 365 



itertials with white : throat, breaft, and fides, white, fully fpotted 

 with rufl: : middle of the belly white ; middle feathers of the tail 

 brown ; exterior feathers white ; each feather truncated obliquely.. 



Inhabits New Tork. Bi», Mus. Place, 



Le Bruant bleu de Canada, Brijfon, iii. 298. _ 234. Bls? e. 



L'Azuroux, De Buffon, iv. 369. — Latham, ii. 205* 



T> With the crown of a dirty red :, the upper part of the neck and 

 body, fcapulars, and lelTer coverts of the wings, of the fame 

 color, varied* with blue : the lower part of the neck, breaft, and 

 belly, of a lighter red, mixed with blue : primaries and tail brownj 

 with the exterior edges of a cinereous blue. 



Inhabits Canada. Breeds in New England; but does not winter Place. 



there, 



Tanagracyanea, i?>, %?. 315.— Z«i/Jaffl,ii. 205.- ^3^"- Ir''DiGOj 



Blue Linnet, Catefiy, i. 45. 



Le Taugara bleu de la Caroline, Brijfon, iii. 13^ 



Le Miniftre, De Buffon, iv. 86. — Bl. Mus. — Lev. Mtrs. 



With a dufky bill : plumage of a rich Iky-blue color ; lighteffc 

 about the belly and breaft : acrofs the coverts of the wings is 

 a row of black fpots : primaries and tail dufky, edged with blue. 



Female brown above; of a dirty white beneath. In Size lefs. 

 than the £«^///^ Goldfinch. 



Inhabits (according to Catejby) the interior parts of Carolina, a PtACEi 



hundred and fifty miles from the fea. Has the note of a Linnet. It 

 is found as low as Mexico, "fihcrexhc Spaniards ca\\ it AzulLexos, 

 or the far-fetched bird : and the Americans call it thQ Indigo bird. 

 Notwithftanding Catefiy, it appears in the province of New Tork, m 

 May. Makes its neft of dead yellow grafs, lined with the down o£, 

 Ibme plant , and places it between the fork of an upright branch. , 



