. 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.

PAINTED BUNTING

_Passerina ciris. Case 6, Figs. 49, 50_

The male is one of our most brilliantly colored
birds, the female has the color of a Vireo but the
bill of a Sparrow.

_Range._ Southern States north to southeastern
North Carolina and southern Kansas; winters from
southern Florida southward.

"Painted" Bunting he is called, but the brilliancy and luster of his
plumage were not painted by human hands. 'Nonpareil' he has also been
named, and, in the eastern United States, at least, he is without equal
in the brightness of his colors. The bird's haunts are not unlike those
of the Indigo Bunting, and its song is said to resemble the Indigo's but
to be more feeble. It builds in bushes and low trees, laying 3-4 bluish
white, brown-spotted eggs in May.

DICKCISSEL

_Spiza americana. Case 7, Fig. 20_

The yellow on the breast and, in the male, black
crescent will distinguish this species from all
its Sparrow kin. L. 6.

_Range._ Chiefly prairies of the Mississippi
Valley, from Texas and Mississippi north to
Minnesota and southern Ontario; now rare east of
the Alleghanies.

Washington, formerly "very abundant," now seen
only occasionally, May-Aug. Cambridge, casual,
found nesting at Medford, June 9. 1877, where
several birds were observed; not uncommon in
1833-34 (see Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, III, 1878, 45.
190). N. Ohio, rare S.R., May 1. Glen Ellyn,
rather rare and local S.R., formerly common. May
3-Sept. 5. SE. Minn., common S.R., May 11-Aug. 20.

The Dickcissel is a bird of the fields who, from a weed-stalk or fence
by the wayside, sings his unmusical _dick-dick cissel, cissel, cissel_.
The nest is built on the ground or in a bush and the 4-5 pale blue eggs
are laid the latter half of May.

TANAGERS. FAMILY TANGARIDAE

SCARLET TAN