Male: bright blue, of a greener tint than the Bluebird; wings and tail dusky.
Female: plain brown above and whitey brown below, with a few streaks, including a sharp black one under her beak.
A pleasant neighbor and good Citizen, belonging to the southern branch of the Finch family.
A Tree Trapper and a Weed Warrior.
A Summer Citizen of the eastern United States, west to Kansas and north to Canada. From Kansas to the Pacific Ocean he is replaced by his brother, the Lazuli Bunting.
[CHAPTER XVII]
A MIDSUMMER EXCURSION
It was that wonderful week after the middle of June. The week that holds the best of everything; the longest days of the whole fly-away year; the biggest strawberries and the sweetest roses. Everything at its height; birds in full song; bees in the flowers; children in hammocks under the trees, and a Wise Man humming happily to himself as he breathed it all in.
"I don't think that anything nicer than this can happen," said Nat, swinging so hard in his hammock that he rolled out into the long grass.
"It doesn't seem as if it could" answered Dodo; "only here at Orchard Farm there is so much niceness you never can tell what is the very nicest."