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RUBICULA AMERICANA CÆRULEA 
The Blue Bird, 
t I 1H I S Bird weighs nineteen penny- 
1 weights, and is about the bignefs 
of a Sparrow* The eyes are large : 
the head, and upper-part of the body, tail, 
and wings, are of a bright blue, except 
that the ends of the wing-^feathers are 
brown : the throat and breaft are of a 
dirty red : the belly is white. It is à Bird 
of a very fwift flight, its wings being very 
long j fo that the Hawk generally purfueS 
it in vain. They make their nefts in holes 
and trees ; are harmlefs Birds, and refem- 
ble our Robin-red-breaft. They feed on 
InfecSls only. 
Thefe Birds are common in moft parts 
of North America ; for I have feen them 
in Carolina^ Virginia^ Maryland^ and the 
'Bermudas Iflands, 
Rouge-Gorge de la Caroline. 
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C BfT Otfeau pefe prefquUÊe once. II efl 
à peu pres " de la grojfeur d'^un 
Moineau. Ses yeux font grands 
fa tête.^ î3 le deffus de fin corps., de fa qiieüe 
^ de fis ailes font d'^un bleu fort vif., 
excepte què les extrémités des plumes des 
ailes font brunes : fa gorge, ^ fii poitrine 
font d"* un rouge fale : fin v entré efl blanc. 
Cet Oifiau vole fort vlte^, fis ailes étant très 
longues, £n forte que le Faucon le pourfuit 
en vain. Il fait fin nid dans les trous des 
arbres. C’efl un Oifiau fort doux : il 
reffemble à nôtre Rouge-gorge. Il ne fi 
nourrit que d'^InfeEîes. 
Il efl très commun dans toute /’Amé- 
rique Septentrionale 5 car fen ai vu à la 
Caroline, à la Virginie, dans la Marilande, 
aux lies Bermudes. 
Smilax non fpinofa, humilis, folio Ariflolochi^e, haccis ruhfis. 
T his plant fometimes trails on the ground. UE Plante rampe quelquefois fur la terre. 
The leaves refemble thofe of the Birth-wort, Ses feuilles reffemblent à celles de T Arifloloche. 
and are fet alternately on its tender ftalks ; from Elles font difpofées alternativement fur des tiges fort 
which hang clufters of fmall red berries of an oval minces ; d" oà pendent par grapes de petites bayes 
form, but pointed, each containing a very hard rouges, ovales, pointues. Chaque baye contient une 
round feed, graine ronde fort dure. 
