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La Mefangc Bleue. Br iff on. av. 3. 544. 

 Buff. oif. 5. p. 413- 



PL enl. 3. fig. 2. 

 Blava fnitza, Blau mandlitz. Scopoli. N° 244. 

 Blaumeife. Kramer 379. Frijch. 1. 14. 

 Blamees. jF^ww. Suec. fp. 267. 

 Parozolino, o Fratino. Zinan. 76. 



This is a very beautiful bird, it frequents gardens and orchards 

 where it does much injury to the fruit trees by tearing off the 

 bloflbms, in fearch of the eggs and larva of infects. The female 

 builds its neft in holes of walls, or trees, and lays from fourteen or 

 fifteen to twenty eggs ; it is faid to defert its neft, if any of the eggs 

 are touched or broken : but defends its young when hatched, with 

 much fpirit. Length of this fpecies four inches and a half. 



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