176 CHATTERER. 



This bird inhabits the external range between Mexico and 

 Canada, at least; at Quebec called the Recollect;* makes a large 

 nest in the fork of an apple tree, ten or twelve feet from the ground, 

 of coarse, dry stalks of grass, lined with finer ; the eggs three or 

 four in number, dingy white, in shape tapering suddenly, marked 

 with small roundish black spots, of different sizes and shapes; 

 hatches the last week in June : the first food of the young is larvae 

 of insects, and by degrees berries ; when fat, thought to be good 

 food, hence brought to market, selling from 12 to 25 cents per dozen ; 

 is seen, occasionally, both in winter and summer, and sometimes 

 does much damage to the early cherries ; the note is trifling, nothing 

 that can be called a song : comes into Georgia in small flocks, the 

 beginning of April, and eats the berries of the Pride of China, and 

 a flock has been known to continue there all May, feeding on 

 mulberries; is called there Crown, or Cedar Bird, as well as the 

 Chatterer. Mr. Bartram observes, that they sometimes prolong their 

 stay in Pennsylvania to the 1st of June, when the early cherries ripen, 

 and again seen in autumn, when the cedar berries f are in perfection, 

 and then arrive in large flocks. This bird has been met with at 

 Aoonalashka, % as well as at Norton Sound. § 



3— PURPLE-BREASTED CHATTERER. 



Ampelis Cotinga, Ind. Orn. i. 364. Lin. i. 298. Gm. Lin. i. 840. Bris. ii. 340. t.34. 1 ? 



Id. 8vo.i. 252. Spalowsk, i. t. 23. Gerin.m. t. 312, 313. 

 Le Cotinga bleu, PL enl. 186. Levail. Am. et Ind. i. 101. pi. 34. — male. Id. pi. 35. 



female. Id. pi. 36 — young bird. 

 Purple-breasted blue Manakin, Edw. pi. 241. Gen. of Birds, 63. pi. 9. 

 Purple-breasted Chatterer, Gen. Syn. iii. 94. Shaw's Zool. x. p. 429. pi. 35. 



SIZE of a Song Thrush ; length eight inches and three quarters. 

 Bill and legs black ; irides reddish brown ; plumage on all the 



* No doubt from the similarity of the crest to that part of this order. 



t Juniperus Americana. J Ellis's Voy.u. p. 15. § Cook's last Voy, ii. 518. 



