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as "summer resident; occurs throughout the State." The birds have not come 

 under my observation in the State. 



Genus SCOLECOPHAG-US Swainson. 



B. 417. R. 273. C. 331. G. 138. U. 509. 



198. Scolecophagus carolinus ( Mull.). Rusty Blackbird. Winter sojourner; 

 common in eastern Kansas. Leave in March. 



B. 418. R. 274. C. 331. G. 139. U. 510. 



199. Scolecophagus cyanocephalus (Wagl.). Brewer's Blackbird. An oc- 

 casional summer resident in western Kansas, during migration common; but 

 rare in eastern Kansas. Arrive early in the spring. Begin laying about the 

 20th of May. The nest is a bulky structure, placed in the forks of trees and 

 bushes, from three to thirty feet from the ground, composed of sticks inter- 

 laid with grass, weeds, and tracings of mud, and lined with rootlets and hairs. 

 Eggs, four to six; 1.02x.74; dull greenish white, thickly clouded with specks 

 and blotches of dark reddish brown; in form oval. 



Genus QUISCALUS Vieillot. 

 Subgenus QUISCALUS. 



B. — . R. 2786. C. 836. G. 140. U. 5116. 



200. Quiscalus quiscula seneus (Ridgw.). Bronzed Grackle. An occasional 

 resident in southern Kansas; abundant in summer. Arrive in March. Begin 

 laying about the middle of April. Nests saddled on to horizontal limbs, or in 

 forks and in excavations of trees, along the streams and in the orchards and 

 shade trees about dwellings; a large and rather compact structure, composed 

 of coarse grasses, weeds, blades of corn, or most any handy material, plastered 

 together with mud and lined with fine grasses, sometimes rootlets and hairs. 

 Eggs, four to six; 1.20x.85; light greenish white, irregularly spotted and 

 marked with zigzag lines of rusty blackish brown, chiefly about large end; in 

 form rounded oval. 



Family FRINGILLID^. Finches, Sparrows, etc. 



Genus COCCOTHRAUSTES Beisson. 

 Subgenus HESPERIPHONA Bonaparte. 



B. 303. R. 165. C. 189. G. 83. U. 554. 



201. Coccothraustes vespertina (Coop.). Evening Grosbeak. Migratory; 

 rare. 



Genus PINICOLA Vieillot. 



B. 304. R. 166. C. 190. G. 84. U. 515. 



202. Pinicola enucleator ( Linn.). Pine Grosbeak. A rare winter visitant. 



