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QUISCALUS QUISCULA AENEAS Rid£way 



BjtoNZED Crackle 



The only specimen taken is a young male recently from the nest 

 from near Richland, Greenbrier County, June 24. Its identification 

 is based on assumption, since it is entirely in juvenal plumage. It 

 is dark in color and shows indistinct streakings of dusky on the 

 gray brown of the breast and abdomen. 



Crackles are local during the nesting season, and no adults were 

 taken though special search was made for them. I saw a few near 

 Enon on May 9. 



MOLOTHRUS ATER ATER (Boddaert) 



Eastern Cowbird 



Found in summer mainly, if not entirely, west of the mountains. 

 Following are localities at which specimens were taken: Near Hunt- 

 ington (including a point 4 miles east, and another in the hills south 

 of the Cuyandot River), April 25 and May 2; Muddlety, May 14; 5 

 miles north of Drennen, May 18; West Fork River, near Arnoldsburg, 

 Calhoun County, May 23; Laurel Creek near White Pine, May 25; 

 and 7 miles east of Philippi, June 1. On April 19 I observed several 

 flocks in migration near McCauley. 



Family THRAUPIDAE 



PIRANGA ERYTHROMELAS Vieillot 



Scarlet Tanager 



Common and widely distributed wherever there is woodland. 

 Specimens were taken as follows: Fourteen, April 28; Gilboa, May 5; 

 Enon, May 8; Wayne, May 1; Rich Mountain, 7 miles southwest of 

 Harman, July 8; 3,300 to 3,700 feet in the Cranberry Glades, June 9 

 and 15; and 3,800 feet elevation on Cheat Mountain, 8 miles north- 

 west of Cheat Bridge, September 26. Near White Sulphur Springs 

 and Charmco I found them common on May 8, and on the following 

 day I observed many at Gilboa and in the Cranberry Glades. Several 

 were seen near McCauley on May 24. 



PIRANGA RUBRA RUBRA (Linnaeus) 



Summer Tanager 



Two were secured in the hills south of the Guyandot River near 

 Huntington on May 2, and another along the Little Kanawha River 

 near Grantsville on May 20. I observed one near Barboursville on 

 October 10, 1932. 



Family FRINGILLIDAE 



RICHMONDENA CARDINAUS CARDINAUS (Linnaeus) 



Eastern Cardinal 



This handsome bird is universally distributed except in the higher 

 mountains of the State. A male secured at 3,500 feet elevation on 



