THE BIRDS 



OF 



ALBANY COUNTY 



ORDER PASSERES 



SUBORDER OSCINES 



Family Turdidas 



Bluebird. — Sialia sidis. 7.04 



Very Common Summer Resident 



Field marks. — Upper parts bright blue; throat, breast and 

 sides reddish-brown. Female, duller. 



So many pretty things have been said by poets and 

 naturalists about this little harbinger of Spring that it is next 

 to impossible to characterize him anew. Nevertheless, the 

 writers have not agreed as to the date of his arrival in our 

 cold Northland. His principal distinction is his being so 

 widely and generally known to all classes of persons. About 

 every newspaper in the country announces his arrival from the 



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