Bird* cf "Western NortliO«r«i;n». 

 WiUiam BrbirbW. 



I02. Sialia sialis. Bluebird.— Common, ranging up to about 4000 

 eet. Although often seen in the wilder portions of this region, it evidently 

 preferred the neighborhood of towns and houses, where, unmolested by 

 the quarrelsome House Sparrow, it bred*) boxes put up for its reception 

 and showed all that charming familiarity and confidence wliich once char- 

 acterized our New England Bluebird. 



Aak. 8. April. 1886. p. 178 j . 



