BIRDS OF AMERICA: THE ARCTIC BLUE-BIRD (Idaho and Nevada)

BIRDS OF AMERICA: THE ARCTIC BLUE-BIRD

State Bird of Idaho and Nevada

By John James Audubon, F. R. SS. L. & E.

ARCTIC BLUE-BIRD

[Mountain Bluebird.] 

SIALIA ARCTICA, Swains.
[Sialia currucoides.] 

This beautiful species, first introduced to the notice of ornithologists by Dr. RICHARDSON, who procured a single specimen at Fort Franklin in July 1825, is merely a summer visitor to the Fur Countries. Both the male and the female are represented in my plate. The latter I believe has not hitherto been figured. Mr. NUTTALL'S notice respecting this interesting bird, so closely allied to Sialia Wilsoni, is as follows:

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