cow TROOPIAL, OR COW BLACK-BIRD. 



(Icterus pccoris, Temm. Audubon, pi. 99. Emheriza pecoris, Wilson, 2. 

 p. 145. pi. 18. fig. 1. [male], fig. 2. [female], fig. 3. [the young]. 

 Philad. Museum, No. 6378, 6379.) 



Sp. Charact. — Glossy black ; head and neck blackish-brown. — 

 Female wholly sooty-brown, beneath pale. — Young smiilar to 

 the female, with the breast spotted. 



The Cow-pen Bird, perpetually gregarious and flit- 

 ting, is observed to enter the Middle and Northern States 

 in the latter end of March or the beginning of April. 

 They make their migration now chiefly under cover of the 

 night, or early dawn ; and as the season becomes milder 

 they pass on to Canada, and perhaps follow the Warblers 

 and other small birds into the farthest regions of the 

 north, for they are seen no more after the middle of June, 



