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ful and docile, quite musical, and at a given signal 

 will come and perch upon the finger of their 

 master. 



The eggs are oblong-oval, pointed at one end, 

 white with a slight roseate tinge in fresh speci- 

 mens, and variously marked with blotches and 

 irregular lines of waving lines of purplish-brown. 

 They measure .90 of an inch in length, and .60 in 

 breadth. The species is single-brooded in this 

 latitude. 



Subfamily Quiscalinae. Crow ttlackhirds. 



Both in structure and in habits these birds are 

 intimate.lv related to the ^l^chciiuc, but are dis- 



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criminated by the long and slender bill, curved 

 culmen particularly towards the extremity, and 

 strongly inflected tomia. The typical birds have 

 a crow- like appearance, but are readily dis- 

 tinguished. The have large and strong feet, and 

 are eminently terrestrial, walking or running in- 

 stead of leaping. They build rude and bulky 

 nests, and possess a voice which can scarcely be 

 deemed musical. There are three genera of this 

 subfamily, two of which are represented in this 

 country; the other (Cassidix) being a native of 

 the Old World. 



Scolecophagus ferriigineics, Swainson, 



The Rusty Blackbird has been met with in 

 Eastern Pennsylvania in small flocks of a dozen 

 and even less as early as the ist of March in its 



