202 



ORIOLES. 



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CO, E, e, 1. 1-4. 



when it is green, it then bleaches. Song, softer and rather 



more musical than d, 1. Migrates north in May, south in 



Sep. 



f. Yellow-lieaded Blackbirds. Xantlioceplialus. 



Fig. 264. , Rather large birds with 



thick, but pointed bills, quite 

 long tails and wings. 



1 . Y E L L O W-HE ADED 

 BLACKBIRD, X. xantho- 

 CEPHALUS. 10.50; dull black; 

 head, mostly yellow; small 

 white patch on wing, fig. 265. 

 Female duller, no white on 

 wing. Young male, like fe- 

 male but has white on wing. 

 Western U. S. east to 111. ; casual in Mass., Pa.. Md., W. Ya., 

 District of Columbia, S. C. and Fig. 265. 



Fla. Song, a wheezy squeak. 

 Largely resident. 

 g. Rusty Blackbirds. .^Sk';,iM 



Scolecophag^us. _««— 



Rather si en der, medium ^^^WMBI^/^^ 



sized birds, VhoUy black with 

 greenish iridescence, becoming 

 rusty or grayish in autumn ; 

 wings, long ;tail, long and some- 

 what rounded; bill, somewhat 

 curved; irides, yellowish-white. 



1. RUSTY BLACKBIRD, CC, E, f, 1. 1-5. 



S. CAKOLiNUS. 9.50; bill, slender, iridescence of head not 

 different from body, fig. 266 ; tips of feathers rusty in autumn. 

 Female, grayish. Eastern N. A. from northern N. E. north- 

 ward ; winters on the Gulf Coast; goes south in Sep., north 

 in Marc-h. Common. Nests in bushes. 



