"It was a redbird, I suppose," I said, in mentioning it later to a city acquaintance.

"What is a redbird?"

"Then," she observed, with an air of finality, "it was a cardinal grosbeak; and the other name for that is redbird; so you saw a redbird.

"Then," she observed, with an air of finality, "it was a cardinal grosbeak; and the other name for that is redbird; so you saw a redbird.

The scarlet tanager is red, too, but it has black wings, and it isn't called a redbird; and the crossbill is red, with a few white feathers, and it isn't called a redbird either.

The scarlet tanager is red, too, but it has black wings, and it isn't called a redbird; and the crossbill is red, with a few white feathers, and it isn't called a redbird either.

Not long after I had been so earnestly assured that the scarlet bird I had seen was a redbird, I made occasion to go to the library in which the information had been gathered.

Behind me a redbird was whistling (cardinal grosbeak, I have been accustomed to call him, but I like the Southern name better, in spite of its ambiguity), now in eager, rapid tones, now slowly and with a dying fall.

And all the while the redbird whistles in the shrubbery.

At that moment a female redbird flew out of the bush.

From that point, as far as I went, the road was lined with Cherokee roses,not continuously, but with short intermissions; and from the number of redbirds seen, almost invariably in pairs, I feel safe in saying that the nest I had found was probably one of fifteen or twenty scattered along the wayside.

I was ready to christen the road anew,Redbird Road.

But the redbirds, many and conspicuous as they were, had no monopoly of the road or of the day.

The martins would be cackling, in any event, and the kingbirds practicing their aerial mock somersaults; and the mocking-bird would be singing, and the redbird whistling.

Oven-bird, Oxalis, yellow, Papaw, Paroquet, Partridge-berry, Pelican: brown, white, Persimmon, Phoebe, Pipewort, Poison Ivy, Poppy, Mexican, Quail, Rail: Carolina, clapper, king, Redbird (Cardinal Grosbeak), "Ricebird".

Once a redbird shot confidently down from above on half-closed wing, caught sight of these intruders, brought up with a swish of feathers, and eyed them gravely for some time from a neighbouring treelet.

Western Actuarial Bureau (PWH); 17Dec56; R182526. PARKER, MARY Can't get a redbird.

SCARBOROUGH, DOROTHY. Can't get a redbird.

Where the redbird flies; stories from the Southern States.

Redbird, By Hal Borland.

SCARBOROUGH, DOROTHY. Can't get a redbird.

Where the redbird flies; stories from the Southern States.

Redbird, By Hal Borland.

In their hair they braided eagle plumes, hawk wings, or the brilliant plumage of the tanager and redbird.

A COURTSHIP From 'Summer in Arcady' The sunlight grew pale the following morning; a shadow crept rapidly over the blue; bolts darted about the skies like maddened redbirds; the thunder, ploughing its way down the dome as along zigzag cracks in the stony street, filled the caverns of the horizon with reverberations that shook the earth; and the rain was whirled across the landscape in long, white, wavering sheets.