Length about five and a half inches.
Upper parts shining black, marked on the wings and tail with rich salmon-red.
Under parts shining black on the neck and breast, bright salmon-red on the sides, and pinkish-white on the belly.
In the female all the parts which are black in her mate are light greenish-gray, and she is clear yellow where he is red.
A useful Summer Citizen of eastern North America, from Kansas to Labrador. Winters in the tropics.
A Ground Gleaner, Tree Trapper, and Sky Sweeper.
[CHAPTER XIII]
AROUND THE OLD BARN
This day the bird lovers from Orchard Farm were having a picnic in the hickory and oak woods back of the fields. It was a charming place for such a day's outing, for on the edge of the woods stood an old two-storied hay barn, which was empty in early June and a capital place in which to play "I spy" and "feet above water." On the other side of the wood was an old swampy meadow full of saplings and tangled bushes, such as birds love for nesting places.
The Doctor had set Rap, Nat, and Dodo roaming about to look for birds, and promised to tell them something of their habits when each child had written down the description of two birds.