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towards the centre ; it is composed of grasses and earth, and 
lined internally with feathers, The female lays five eggs, 
which are white, spotted with yellowish. The young leave 
their nest in June, and are soon able to join the parents in 
their autumnal migration, 
In the northern countries, where these birds are very 
numerous, when a deep snow has covered the ground, they 
appear to lose all sense of danger, and by spreading some 
favourite food, may be knocked down with sticks, or even 
caught by the hand, while busily engaged in feeding. Their 
manners are, in other respects, very similar to those of the 
common crossbill, as described by Wilson, and they are said 
also to partake of the fondness for saline substances so re- 
markable in that species. 
FEMALE INDIGO FINCH. (fringilla cyanea.) 
PLATE XV.—Fic. 4. 
See Wilson’s American Ornithology, i. p. 99, pl. 6, fig. 5, for the male.—Tanagra 
cyanea, Linn. Syst. i. p. 315, sp. 6, adult male in full plumage.—Emberiza 
cyanea, Gmel. Syst. i. p. 876, sp. 54.—Lath. Ind. p. 415, sp. 60.—Emberiza 
cyanella, Sparm. Mus. Carls. ii. pl. 42, 48.—Gmel. Syst. i. p. 887, sp. 74.— 
Emberiza coerulea, Gmel. Syst. i. p. 876.—Lath. Ind. p. 415, sp. 59, male in 
moult.—Tanagra cerulea? Gimel. Syst.i. p. 891, sp. 27.—Lath. Ind. p. 427, 
sp. 27, adult male.—Tanagra Carolinensis coerulea, Briss. Av. iii. p. 13, sp. 6, 
adult male in full dress:—Emberiza Canadensis ccerulea, Briss. Av. iii. p. 
298, sp. 12, pl. 14, fig. 2, male moulting.—Passerina cyanea, Vieill. Nouv. 
Dict. Hist. Nat.—¥ringilla cyanea, Wob. Obs. sp. 112.—Id. Cat. and Synop. 
Birds U.S. sp.164.—Linaria cyanea Bartram’s Trav. p. 296.—Linaria ccerula, 
the Blue Linnet, Catesby, Carolina, i. p. 45, pl. 45.—Le Ministre, Buff. Ois. 
iv. p. 86.—L’Azuroux, Buff. Ois. iv. p. 369, male moulting.—Passe-bleu ? 
Buff. Ois. iii. p. 495, adult male in full plumage.— Moineau Bleu de Cayenne ? 
Buff. Pl. ent. 208, fig. 2, adult male in full dress.—Blue Linnet, Hdwards, 
Av. iv. p. 132, pl. 273, lower figure.—Indigo Bunting, Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. 
sp. 235.—Lath. Syn. iv. p. 205, sp. 53.—Blue Bunting, Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. 
sp. 234.—Latham, Syn. ili. p. 205, sp. 52, male moulting.—Blue Tanager? 
Lath. Syn. ii. p. 234, sp. 28.—Philadelphia Museum, No. 6002, male ; 6003, 
female. 
SPIZA CYANEA.—BONAPARTE. 
Male, see vol. i. p. 99, and note to F. amena of present volume. 
TE remarkable disparity existing between the plumage of 
the different sexes of the commen indigo bird renders it 
