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6'. Head and neck not brown. 

 7. Tail normal ; body uniformly glossy bluish black ; 

 migrant. Plumage rusty in fall migration. 



p. 101. Rusty Blackbird. 

 T. Tail long and fan-shaped ; body not uniformly 

 bluish black ; head, neck, and breast metallic pur- 

 ple or bluish ; rest of body metallic with iridescent 

 bars p. 93. Crow Blackbird. 



Fig. 52. Meadowlark. 



Fig. 53. Bobolink. Fig. 54. Red- wing-. 



REPE,ESENTATI^^ES OF BLACKBIRD AXD ORIOLE 

 FAMILY. 



