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KET TO THE BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 



Group 4. Wing, 4.75 to 5.50 inches long 



First primary, not sliort; base of bill, dividing the feathers of the fore= 

 head ; nostrils, exposed ; outer tail feathers, shorser than middle feathers. 



General plumage, metallic blue, 

 green, purple, and bronze. 



Crow Blackbird. 

 Purple Qrackle. 



Qiuscalus quiscula, and races. 

 See No. 383. 





Upper plumage, dark brown, or blackish; crown, brown; underparts, brown= 



ish gray, sliading to l)rownisli white or buffy white on the throat. 



Boat-tailed Crackle. 



Quiscahts major {female') . 

 See No. 386. 



General plumage, black; a 

 patch of scarlet red on 

 the shoulder. 



Red=winged Blackbird. 



Ayelains phu'iiicens (adult male). 

 See No. 3^3. 



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