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of broken stalks of dry flax, and lined with fine grass? 
the female lays three light blue eggs; the young 
are produced about the middle of June; and I suspen*^ 
that the same pair raise no more than one brood in * 
season, for I have never found their nests but i® 
May or June. Towards the middle of August, the/ 
take their departure for the south, their residence her® 
being scarcely four months. The young are, at first, 
a green olive above, nearly the same Colour as the 
female below, and do not acquire their full tints ti® 
the succeeding spring or summer. 
The change, however, commences the first seasU® 
before their departure. In the month of August, tb® 
young males are distinguished from the females H 
their motley garb ; the yellow plumage below, as 'V®® 
as the olive green above, first becoming stained wit® 
spots of a buflr colour, w'hich gradually brighten 
red ; these being irregularly scattered over the wh®'® 
body, except the wings and tail, particularly the form®''' 
which I have often found to contain tour or five gr®®" 
quills in the succeeding June. The first of these' bit'’® 
I ever shot was green winged ; and conceiving it at th** 
time to be a nondescript, I made a drawinn- of it wd® 
care ; and on turning to it at this momen't, I find tb® 
whole of the primaries, and two of the secondari®^ ! 
yellowish green, the rest of the plumage u full t®*. 
This was about the middle of May. In the month 
August, of the same year, being in the woods with 
gun, I perceived a bird of very singular plumage, *®® 
having never before met with such an oddity, instantV 
gave chase to if. It appeared to me, at a small distan®®’ 
to be sprinkled all over with red, green, and yell®"^' 
After a great deal of difficulty, for the bird bad tak®® 
notice of my eagerness, and had become extremely 
I succeeded in bringing it down ; and found it to b« 
a young bird of the same species with the one I bf* 
killed in the preceding May, but less advanced to 
fixed colours ; the wings entirely of a greenish yellot®' 
and the rest of the plumage spotted, in the most irregul*® 
manner, with red, yeUow, brown, and greenish. Having' 
