INDIGO-BIRD. 
(Passeri/na cya/ned.) 
ALE, indigo-blue, intense and constant on the head, 
glancing greenish on other parts with different lights; 
wings and tail, blackish, glossed with greenish blue; 
bill, dark above, paler below. Female, plain warm 
brown above, rather paler below; wing coverts and inner quills, 
pale edged, but not whitish; upper mandible, blackish; lower, 
pale, with a black stripe. Eastern United States to Maine and 
Canada; west, to Kansas and Indian Territory. 
Nest in the crotch of a bush, large for the size of the bird, 
and not at all artistic. Eggs, four to five, white, with a faint 
blue shade; sometimes a little speckled. . 
“The Indigo-bird is not so well known as our 
friend in sky-blue that comes with the earliest zephyrs 
of Spring,” said “Artist.” ‘His coat is so dark a 
blue that in the sunlight it sometimes looks green.” 
“Querist” asked: “Did you ever see an Indigo- 
bird, Miss Sweet ?” 
“Yes; I was seated, one morning, in a favorite spot 
for bird study, on the side of a hill, above a gently 
flowing stream. On the opposite bank stood a dead 
tree, and beyond it spread a smooth, open level space 
of ground, with a few bushes here and there, and some 
driftwood scattered about. 
‘““On a limb of the dead tree, in good range for my 
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