Perching Birds Marked With Blue 



y65B- Cerulean W(p- Aer (Dendroica ceruUa). L. 5- 

 Ad. (J'. A gray-blue breast band; abuve bright gray- 

 biue streaked with black; wing-bars and spots in tail 

 wliite, Ad. 9 and Yftg. ^. Above blue-gray washed 

 with greenish, below yellowish white; a whitish line 

 over eye. Notes. Call, a warbler lisp and tcktp Of the 

 Myrtle Warbler; song resembling that of Parula 

 Warbler. (Brewster.) (See page i8o.) 



Range.— Ml sslsslnpi Valley, breeding; north to Minnesota and east 

 to Cayug-a County, New Yorli, Maryland, and West Virginia; gener- 

 ally rare aa«t of Alleghanlss; inigrales «outh through T^xas and 

 winifrs In Central and South America. 



597. BlueQposbeak (GwiVnifi? i^iPfK/M). L. 7; W. 

 J.4. .4d. (^. Deep, dark blue, back blacker and 

 sometimes with brownish edgings; lesser wing-coverts 

 broadly, greater win^-coverts narrowly lipped with 

 irnestnut. In winter more or less tipped with brown- 

 ish above and below. Ad. ?. Above grayish brown, 

 deepest on head; belc"*/ grayish white washed with 

 buffy. wing-bars butf. Some specimens show more or 

 le-iS blue, particularly about head. Yng. c?- Like 9, 

 but browner. Noiea. Call, a strong, harsh, ptchick, 

 song, a beautiful but feeble warble, somewhat like 

 that of Purple Finch and with a slight resemblance to 

 that of Rose-breasted Grosbeak. (Ridgw.) 



Rang'e. — Eastern United States; breeds from the Gulf north to 

 M.Tryland and southern Illinois; winters south of United States Into 

 Mexico and Central America; casually north as far as Maine and 

 Qiieber:. 



597a, Western Blue Grosbeak (G. c. la^ula). Sim- 

 ilar to No. 597, but larger, W. 3.6; male brighter blue; 

 b.ick blacker; tips of wing-coverts paler, those of greater 

 coverts usually decidedly paler than those of lesser 

 civerts and averaging wider than those of No. 597. 

 Female averaging paler, less brown. 



Range, — West*™ Unitti Stales; breeds from Mexico north to 

 Kans.is, southsi'n Nebraska, Colorado, and northern California; 

 wlrtters In Mexico and Central America. 



598. Indigo Bunting (Cyanospi^a cyanea). L. 5.4. 

 No white wing-bars, Ad. (^. Deep blue, darkest 

 on head. In winter brown, paler below, more or less 

 mixed with blue. Ad. ?. Above brown; below 

 whitish washed with brown with a suggestion of streaks; 

 lesser wing-coverts and margins of tail-feathers usually 

 tinged with blue. Yng. Similar to ? but beluw more 

 Streaked; browner, and generally without blue tinge. 

 Notes. Call, a sharp jftji; song, a tinkling, unsympa- 

 thetic, rapid warble, July, July, summer-sutttmer' s here) 

 morning, noontide, evening, list to me. 



Range. — Eastern Unlte3 States, WHst to the Plains, casually to Col- 

 orado; breeds north to Nova S tut la and Manitoba ; winters In OsutraJ 

 Ameilta. 



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