Peculiar Plumage of the Bluebird./X' 



While collecting in Baltimore County last 

 March, I shot a specimen of the common Blue- 

 bird in a very remarkable and beautiful plumage. 

 The throat, breast and under parts were as in the 

 common form, but the entire upper parts were a 

 light azure-blue, paler on the head and brightest 

 on the rump, with an intense greenish reflection 

 in certain lights. Except that it was a little 

 paler, the color was exactly like that of the Rocky 

 Mountain Bluebird.— yl. H. Jennings, Baltimore, 

 Maryland. 



O.&O. XI. Feb. 1886. p. /r. 



Descriptions of First Plumage of Oer- 

 tain North Am. Bbs. Wm. Brewster. 



v. Sialia sialia. 



Fini plumage: female. Above dull smoky-brown, unmarked on head 

 and rump, the latter slightly paler ; but marked over the interscapular 

 region and wing-coverts by tear-shaped spots of white and pale fawn- 

 color, these spots occiipying the central portions of the feathers. Second- 

 aries and tertiaries edged, and tipped with reddish-brown; first primary 

 and lateral pair of rectrices with the outer webs pure white ; inner 

 primaries as in adult, but with the blue of a much lighter shade ; 

 posterior margin of eye with a crescentic spot of soiled white. Under parts, 

 with the exception of the abdominal region, which is nearly immaculate, 

 pale ashy-white, each feather broadly margined with dull cinnamon- 

 brown. From a specimen in my collection, shot at Cambridge, Mass., 

 June 8, 1874. 



BuU. N.0.0, 3,^Jan..l878.p. 



