Indigo Bird

Indigo Bird [now Indigo Bunting]
Fringilla cyanea [now Passerina cyanea]
Folio edition, plate 74

“The Indigo Bird . . . is not a forest bird, but prefers the skirts of the woods, the little detached thickets in and along the fields, the meadows, the gardens, and orchards, and is frequently seen hopping along, or perched on a fence, from which it does not disdain to send forth its pretty little song.”

John James Audubon, Ornithological Biography, or An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America (Edinburgh: A. Black [et al.], 1831), vol. 1, p. 377.

View bird in National Audubon Society Guide to North American Birds.