RED-WINGED BLACK-BIRD. 



(Icterus ph(Bniceus, Daud. Bonap. Audubon, pi. 67. [the male, a 

 small specimen]. Sturnus prcedatorius, Wilson, 4. p. 30. pi. 30. fig. 

 1. [male in summer dress], fig. 2. [female]. Pliilad. Museum, No. 

 1466, 1467.) 



Sp. Charact. — Black; lesser wing coverts vermilion red. — 

 Young diiid autumnal male, above, with the feathers, skirted with 

 ferruginous. — Female, dasky brown, varied with ferruginous 

 and whitish, sometimes also with the lesser wing-coverts spotted 

 with black and the red of the male. 



The Red-Winged Oriole in summer inhabits the whole 

 of North America from Nova Scotia to Mexico, and is 

 found in the interior of the continent from the 53d degree 

 of latitude, probably to the sources of the Missouri. They 

 are migratory north of Maryland, but pass the winter in 

 great numbers in all the southern states, frequenting 

 chiefly the settlements and rice and corn-fields, towards 

 the sea-coast, where they move about like blackenino- 

 clouds, rising suddenly at times with a noise like thunder, 

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