Comes north about first or second week in April. Remains until late September or October—builds and travels in flocks or companies—winters in South or Central America.
Song—a constant twitter.
Head and upper parts except forehead steel blue—tail feathers marked with white—forehead and throat clear chestnut colour—chest and lower body paler chestnut.
Food—chiefly insects caught while on the wing.
Nest—built chiefly of mud—chooses under eaves or cavelike places for building—mud mixed with grasses and (one authority also asserts) a sticky saliva from the bird's mouth.
Eggs—white, tinted a delicate rose, and speckled finely with brown and purple.—Two or three broods in a season.
THE HAWK AND THE RAVEN
