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KEY TO THE BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 



General plumage, black, glossed ou the liead with purplish or violet black, and 

 back and underparts, tinged with metallic green ; no red ou shoulder. 



Brewer's Blackbird. 



Scolecophagus cijanocephalus (male). 

 See No. 382. 



General plumage, black, tinged with brown on the crown and back ; the 



feathers ou the underparts, tipped witli i-usty brown; uuderparts, uot streaked; 

 no red on shoulder. 



Rusty Blackbird. 



Scolecophagus caroUnns (immature). 

 See No. 381. 



General plumage, black, more or less streaked and marked with brown, 

 buff, and dull white; lesser wing coverts (slioukh'r), dull red. 



Red=winged Blackbird. 



Ayelains phceniceiis (noung male). 

 See No. 373. 



Underparts, streaked with black ; no 



red pati'li on slioiildcr. 



^^ Red=winged Blackbird. 



Agelaias plueniceus (female), and races. 

 See No. 373. 



Head and breast, chocolate brown ; lest of plumage, glossy black. 



Cow Bird. 



Molothrtis ater (malej, 

 See No. 371. 



