THE BIRD BOOK 
Blue Grosbeak 
597- Blue Grosbeak. Guiraca ccerulea. 
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Bluish white 
Range. — Southeastern Unit- 
ed States, breeding from the 
Gulf north to Pennsylvania 
and Illinois, and casually to 
New England. 
Smaller than the last two 
species and deep blue, with 
wings and tail blackish, and 
the lesser coverts and tips of 
greater, chestnut. It is a fairly common spe- 
cies in the southerly parts of its range, nest- 
ing most frequently in low bushes or vines 
in thickets; the nest is made of rootlets, weed 
stalks and grasses and sometimes leaves. The 
three or four eggs are bluish white, unmarked. 
Size .85 x .65. Data. — Chatham Co., Ga., June 
10, 1898. 3 eggs. Nest of roots, leaves and 
snake skin, lined with fine rootlets, 3 feet from 
the ground in a small oak bush. 
597a. Western Blue Grosbeak. Guiraca ccerulea lazula. 
Range. — Western United States north to Kansas, Colorado and northern Cal- 
ifornia. 
Slightly larger than the last and lighter blue; nests the same and egg not dis- 
tinctive. 
598. Indigo Bunting. Pax serin a cyanea. 
Ranges — United States, east of the Plains, breeding north to Manitoba and 
Nova Scotia; winters south of the United States. 
This handsome species is rich indigo on the 
head and neck, shading into blue or greenish 
blue on the upper and under parts. They are 
very abundant in some localities along road- 
sides, in thickets and open woods, where their 
song is frequently head, it be- 
ing a very sweet refrain re- 
sembling, somewhat, certatin 
passages from that of the 
Goldfinch. They nest at low 
elevations in thickets or 
vines, building their home of 
grass and weeds, lined with 
fine grass or hair, it being quite a substantial 
structure. The eggs, which are laid in June 
or July, are pale bluish white. Size .75 x .52. 
Pale bluish white 
5.99. Lazuli Bunting. Passerina amcena. 
Range. — Western United States, breeding 
from Mexico to northern United States and the 
interior of British Columbia; east to Kansas. 
This handsome bird is of the size of cyanea , 
but is azure blue above and on the throat, the 
Indigo Bunting 
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