Western Bird Guide: Birds of the Rockies and West to the Pacific

by Charles K. Reed

WESTERN BLUE GROSBEAK.

597a. Guiraca cærulea lazula. 7 inches.

Found more in the open woods, in small groves and along the roadside in the small brush. It seems out of place to have three members of the same family with such a difference of plumage. One with rose, white and black; the next with black, brown and yellow; and this bird, a blue and black. Their nesting habits and also their eggs are much the same as above, the eggs being a little smaller (.85 × .62).