_Passerina cyanea. Case 7, Figs. 23, 24_
The male, well seen, is unmistakable. The female
is very 'sparrowy' and, unless one gets a
suggestion of blue in her plumage, can best be
identified by her unsparrow-like, sharp _pit_. L.
5-1/2.
_Range._ Nests from Georgia and Louisiana to
Canada; winters in the tropics.
Washington, common S.R., Apl. 29-Oct. 9. Ossining,
common S.R., May 4-Oct. 17. Cambridge, common
S.R., May 15-Oct. 1. N. Ohio, common S.R., Apl.
26-Oct. 10. Glen Ellyn, fairly common S.R., May
1-Sept. 22. SE. Minn., common S.R. Apl. 28-Oct. 2.
"July, July, summer-summer's here; morning, noontide, evening, list to
me" the Indigo sings in rather hard but brilliant little voice. To me
the words express the rhythm as well as the spirit of the song. We hear
them most often in bushy fields and open second-growths, along
hedge-rows or from briery clumps in which the bird's nest may be hidden.
The pale, bluish white eggs are laid the latter half of May.