The wren-tit had stayed behind at the well; but while the lazuli was gone, who should come flying in but the foster mother!
The colours again repeat the favourite combination expressive of splendour—gold and lazuli.
The lazuli finch does not venture very high into the mountains, seldom reaching an altitude of more than seven thousand feet.
I had hardly time to congratulate myself on this new piece of testimony, when back came the lazuli with her bill full!
Then it was delightful to see a lazuli bunting on her nest down another aisle.
