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BEAUTirUL BIEDS. 
ing secondaries, and lateral tail-feathers, brown ,' 
insides of the wings and tail beneath, grey. Bill, pale 
horn-colonr. Irides cream yellow. , Begs, bluish- 
grey. The male, after the autumn moult, is dappled 
with greenish-yellow. Tlie female is of a dull green 
inclining to yellow ; the wings and tail, hrownish-hlaek, 
edged with green. Total length about seven inches. 
This, says AVilson, is one of the gaudy foreigners 
(and perhaps the most showy) that regularly visit us 
from the torrid regions of the south. He is drest in 
the richest scarlet, set off with the most jetty black, 
and comes, over extensive countries, to sojourn for a 
time with us. 
On or about the 1st of May this bird makes his 
appearance in Pennsylvania. He spreads over the 
BTnited States, and is found even in Canada. He 
rarely approaches the habitations of man, unless 
perhaps to the orchard, where he sometimes builds ; 
or to the cherry-trees in search of fruit. The depth 
of the woods is his favourite abode. There, among 
the thick foliage of the tallest trees, his simple and 
almost monotonous notes, chip, cliurr, repeated at 
short intervals, in a pensive tone, may be occasionally 
heard, which appear to proceed from a considerable 
distance, though the bird be immediatelv above vou : 
a faculty bestowed upon him by the beneficent Author 
of Mature, no doubt, for his protection, to compensate, 
in a degree, for the danger to which his glowing 
colour would often expose him. Besides this usual 
note, he has', at times, a more musical chant, some- 
thing resembling in mellowmess that of the Baltimoro 
Oriole. His food consists of large winged insects,. 
