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NONPAREIL , the name under which, from its supposed match-less beauty, a little cage-bird, chiefly imported from New Orleans, has long been known to English dealers (cf. Edwards, Gleanings, i. 132). It is the Emberiza ciris of Linnaeus, and the Cyanospiza ciris of most recent
bright blue, the upper part of the back yellow, deepening into green, and the lower parts generally, together with the rump, bright scarlet, tinged on the latter with purple. This gorgeous colouring is not assumed until the bird is at least two years old. The hen is green above and yellow beneath; and the younger cocks present an appearance intermediate between the adults of both sexes. The species, which is often also called the painted bunting, after wintering in Central America or Mexico
appearance in spring advantage is, or was, taken of the pugnacious disposition of the males to capture them alive in great
Ontario and New Brunswick, being everywhere regarded with favour. Though wanting most of the bright hues of its Congener, the indigo-bird has yet much beauty, the adult cock being nearly all over of a deep blue, changing, according to the light, to green. The hen is brown above and ochreous-white beneath.' The " pintailed nonpareil " of aviculture (Erythrura prasina) is a somewhat similarly coloured but really very different bird; the male has a long sharp
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