ICTERID.E — TtlE ORIOLES — IMOLOTIIRUS. 



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M. pecoris. 



and running back on the head in a point. Lateral toes nearly equal, reachinf; the base of 

 the middle one, whieli is shorter than tarsus ; claws rather small. Tail nearly even ; 

 wings long, pointed, the first ijuill longest. 



Molothrus pecoris, Cmelix. 

 THE cow BLACKBIRD; THE COW-BIKD. 



Friiiffi/la pecoris, Gmelix, Syst. Nat. L 1788, 910 (female). — KmbcriM pecoris, Wilson, Am. 

 Orn. IL 1810, 14.5 ; pi. xviii. f. 1, 2, 3. — Molothnis pecoris, Swainsox, F. Bor. Am. II. 

 18.31, 277. — AuDUBOx, Birds Amer. IV. 1842, 16; pi. 212. — Baird, P. K. Rep. IX. 

 Birds, 524. — Heermann, X. vi. 52. — CoUES, Pr. A. N. S. 1866, 90 (Arizona). 



Sp. CuAK. Second quill longest ; (irst scarcely shorter. Tail nearly even, or very 

 slightly rounded. Mair, with the head, neck, and anterior half of the breast, light choco- 

 late brown, rather lighter above ; rest of body lustrous black, with a violet purple gloss 

 next to the brown, of steel blue on the back, and of green elsewhere. 



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