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GRACKLES. 



413. FLORIDA GRACKLE. 

 Differs from last in being smaller, in 

 having head glossing violet-blue which 

 tinting extends to wings and back. Fla. and 

 Gulf coast to La. 



Fig. 295 



Boat-tailed Grackle. l-d. 



414. BOAT-TAILED GRACKLE. 



Large, 16, tail more strongly graduated, 

 black, glossed with blue-green, fig. 295. Fe- 

 male smaller and red-brown, darker above. 

 Young male, like female. South Atlantic 



