394 LIFE-HISTORIES OF BIRDS 



seemed draped as with mourning, while their notes 

 and screamino-s seemed like the far off sounds of 



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a huge cataract but possessed of a more musical 

 cadence. 



The eggs of the Grakle in Eastern Pennsylvania 

 have a lio-ht greenish-white Around-color. We 



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have never met the deep rusty-brown variety 

 which Dr. Brewer speaks of, in the oft cited work 

 on "North American Birds." They are variously 

 and irregularly marked with black and dark-brown 

 dashes and streaks which are singularly grotesque 

 in their patterns. The eggs measure 1.24 of an 

 inch in length and .90 in breadth. 



