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hoppers, and the eggs and young of many 

 birds. Both species are called Crow Blackbirds. 

 The Bronzed Crackles have an unusual range, 

 from the Allegheny Mountains and southern 

 New England to Newfoundland and the Creat 

 Slave Lakes west to the Rocky Mountains and 

 south to Texas and Louisiana. They winter in 

 the lower Mississippi region and Mexico, rarely 

 in New England. I find them about my home 

 in Maine, but the Purple Crackle is unknown 

 there. 



