Blackbird, Crow 



caterpillars, moths, and beetles, of whicli they devour 

 such numbers that but for this providential economy the 

 whole crop of grain, in many places, would probably be 

 destroyed by the time it began to germinate. 



NuttalPs Ornithology. 



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It is impossible to take this bird seriously, he is so irre- 

 sistibly ludicrous. His manners always suggest to me the 

 peculiar drollery of the negro, one of the old-fashioned 

 sort as we read of him. 



Olive Thorne Miller. A Bird-Lover in the West.^ 



The crow blackbirds cackled and jingled. 



Burroughs. 



The blackbirds make the maples ring 

 With social cheer and jubilee. 



The blackbirds clatt'rin' in tall trees. 

 An' settlin' things in windy congresses. 



Emerson. 



Lowell. 



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