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he often sings while flying. The call-note of both sexes 

 is a sharp peek which, like the Cardinal's cheep, seems too 

 small for the bird. 



The Rose-breast lives and nests in woodland, particularly 

 second-growths, building a frail nest ten to twenty feet 

 from the ground. The 4-5 blue, brown-marked eggs are 

 laid the latter half of May. 



INDIGO BUNTING 

 Passerina cyanea. Case 7, Figs. 23, 24 



The male, well seen, is unmistakable. The female is very 

 'sparrowy' and, unless one gets a suggestion of blue in her 

 plumage, can best be identified by her unsparrow-like, sharp 

 pit. L. sJ. 



Range. Nests from Georgia and Louisiana to Canada; winters 

 in the tropics. f"*i 



Washington, common S. R., Apl. 29-Oct. 9. Ossining, common 

 S. R., May 4-Oct. 17. Cambridge, common S. R., May 15- 

 Oct. 1. N. Ohio, common S. R., Apl. 26-Oct. 10. Glen Ellyn, 

 fairly common S. R., May i-Sept. 22. SE. Minn., common S. R. 

 Apl. 28-Oct. 2. 



"July, July, summer-summer's here; morning, noon- 

 tide, evening, list to me " the Indigo sings in rather hard 

 but brilliant little voice. To me the words express the 

 rhythm as well as the spirit of the song. We hear them 

 most often in bushy fields and open second-growths, 

 along hedge-rows or from briery clumps in which the 

 bird's nest may be hidden. The pale, bluish white eggs 

 are laid the latter half of May. 



PAINTED BUNTING 

 Passerina ciris. Case 6, Figs. 49, so 



The male is one of our most brilliantly colored birds, the female 

 has the color of a Vireo but the bill of a Sparrow. 



Range. Southern States north to southeastern North Carolina 

 and southern Kansas; winters from southern Florida southward, 



"Painted" Bunting he is called, but the brilliancy and 

 luster of his plumage were not painted by human hands. 



